Grab

The grab ability is the in game ability to move around objects. This can be used to make items easier to steal (moving them to somewhere where NPCs can't see), move a corpse so you can eat it or to move things around for aesthetic reasons (i.e. decorating your house). An item can be grabbed by clicking in the right thumb stick on the 360 and PS3, or the Z key on the PC, while aiming at the item you want to pick up. Items may be grabbed whether or not you have your equipped weapon out. You are first instructed on grabbing items in the "Baby Steps" quest, and you can grab a lot of varied things in Fallout 3. You can grab corpses, barrels, and grabbing is a suggested way of nicely decorating your home in either Megaton or Tenpenny Tower. Another use for this is getting to unreachable ledges by stacking barrels, milk crates, etc.