Guards' AI regarding looting

[Grimmrok]

So, I'm looting a chest during night time, when all the guards are sleeping. I have over 100% chance to loot any and all items. I'm also sneaking while looting, and, telling by the stealth indicator, no one was observing me.

Now, as soon as I took an item from the chest and put it into my inventory, a sleeping guard gets alerted of my thievery, wakes up, starts shouting and chasing me. This guard was sleeping in a completely different room (there was even a wall between us). What kind of 6th sense do these guards have?

Is it meant to work like this, or is it just a bug? Because it doesn't make sense and just hinders my gameplay.

[MaGGoT]

Has happened to me to. I think this is a bug but I do not know what's causing it.

[Espa]

As far as I know they're still fine-tuning Stealth and Thievery. . Might be bugs, or just imperfect application of the skill so far.

Likely to be fixed, but I'd stick this in the Bugs pile for now.

[Chinsei]

my explanation out side of "Stealth/Theivery" isn't done yet.

is that perhaps you made' noise' an woke the guard up. sure you have a 100% chance of picking it up an taking it . but that doesn't mean you aren't making noise when you do so .

[Hatsune_Neko]

its a problem with the thievery system.