Quote Originally Posted by veti View Post
You're talking about a guild whose idea of thieving is to run up to a heavily armed traveller, with an equally imposing companion, on the highway in broad daylight, brandish a small knife of inferior quality, and say "give me all your money".

The wonder is that any of them are still alive.
To be fair, that seems to be more or less the standard modus operandi of highwaymen in TES games. Granted, the highwaymen in Oblivion generally carried maces or warhammers rather than small knives while bandits like Nels Llendo and Fjol the Outlaw in Morrowind could actually be somewhat dangerous depending on how good your character's combat skills were when you encountered them.