Those nameless 'Thieves' are a pain in the caboose! The first time I saw one, he was trying to pick the lock on Balimund's smithy in Riften. Seeing as my character considers Balimund a friend of sorts, I tried to engage the thief in a conversation to tell him to keep his paws off my buddy's stuff. No such option. The logical next step was to give him a warning blow, but of course that made the thief hostile towards me and I was forced to kill him. Thinking I had nothing else to worry about, I headed over to Madesi's stall to get rid of some of the gems I'd picked up on my travels. Not even a minute later, another thief was at Balimund's door. Hack, slash - two dead thieves. A few minutes later, another one moseyed on up. Annoyed at this point, I Fus Ro Dah'd him into the canol. But they just didn't stop coming. By the time I left Riften, I'd killed five freakin' thieves. Riften's marketplace is now littered with identical dead bodies. =___=

Just do what i do and put them in his Fire Salt fire.. It looks rather funny when you have like 5 thieves in a pile with no clothes.

I stole some lavender from Danica Pure-Spring by accident once and didn't get caught but she sent some thugs to teach me what happens to thieves. I was so mad I wanted to go burn her temple down. They tried to kill me, crazy fools.

LOL! I can see myself walkig into the house to see everything missing, run upstairs and see Lydia sitting there starig at the wall eating stale bread.