9. Skyrim Apply A Bucket To A Shopkeepers Head And Steal Everything
Ive covered before that Skyrims shopkeepers tend to be an insane lot when dealing with shoplifters, often deciding to send assassins after you for nicking pastries. Well, I suppose it does keep thefts down, and if Walmart indulged in this practice wed bring back the ninja at a stroke. Yet canny players realised there was a way to avoid a fine/duelling the town guards/fighting off the minions of Sithis, and that involving making sure you werent seen. Of course, thats incredibly obvious thieves wouldnt be thieves without some element of stealth. Yet it was how they did it which made the whole thing just completely bonkers. Namely, they used buckets. You see, a shopkeeper wont attack you for picking up buckets and throwing them around, so if you judged it just right, you could put it over their head like a hat that obscures vision. Then you could just go nuts, pilfering an entire shops-worth of things without the shopkeeper or the ninjas they keep in business ever finding out. Id like to imagine that theyre oblivious to all this despite the commotion going on around them, yet after the door slams shit they quizzically raise the bucket and find nought but dust and the dragon bones you discarded to free up your backpack. At this point theyd shake their fists, muttering anger in scenes not unlike the Keystone Cops.