That kind of happened with my dad when he was playing Skyrim. He's loaded down with 25,000 pounds of weight, as always, (I mean who
doesn't do that?) and he's wandering around in the middle of nowhere on some road between two towns. There's NO ONE around. It's just a huuuuge empty plain with a road in the middle of it.
Then he finds a horse. It's just some random rider-less horse standing alone on the road. There's no interactive NPC around to be talked to. So I urge father dearest to go take the horse. Then he can ride around Skyrim so much faster than crawling on his stomach under the weight of an impossible amount of weight.
So he approaches the horse and quickly finds out that it's owned.
But by what NPC? There's literally no one around. So he just hops onto the horse. Instantly, 40 or something bounty has been added to the territory!
So, who reported it? The horse did, of course.
The horse reported my dad for stealing a horse.
Todd Howard, you are amazing.