Moment burglar is served up some satisfyingly painful instant karma after trying to break into Chicago home [Video]

A Chicago homeowner was seen chasing and fighting off a would-be burglar around his neighborhood wielding a kitchen utensil as a weapon in a newly released video.

CCTV footage shows Jason Williams running behind the suspect and banging their head with a heavyweight frying pan at around 3.30pm yesterday. 

Williams was minutes away from getting home from work when he received an alert from his alarm system that someone had broken in.

‘Came in the house, I looked if there was an available weapon… there was a frying pan laying there, so I grabbed the frying pan and at the same time the burglar came downstairs. 

‘At this point, it was fight or flight, and I would rather do the fighting,’ Williams told ABC.