Bo Ledford is on probation after serving most of his prison sentence for burglary. Apparently burglary is a habit Bo can’t shake, because he’s at it again. This night Bo is a bit careless — he trips over a bowling ball on the dining room floor, and the ball rolls onto the hardwood floors. You know what kind of sound that makes, especially in the middle of the night.

Afraid that he’s awakened everybody in the house, Bo grabs a nearby set of golf clubs and runs through the kitchen and down the back porch steps into the yard.

Bo is right about one thing. He definitely woke somebody up. Sissy, the owner’s daughter, comes running and screaming down the hallway. She knows there’s an intruder. On her way through the kitchen she grabs the only thing she can think of, a 10-inch cast iron frying pan.

The swift little lady catches up with Bo in the back yard which is now well illuminated by motion detector lights. Sissy smacks Bo on the back of the neck with the frying pan. Bo goes down and the golf clubs go flying in all directions. Before the hapless burglar can scramble to his feet, Sissy whacks him again and again with her cast iron frying pan.

Bo is lying there, partially dazed when a neighbor arrives with a shotgun in hand. Bo is ordered to "stay down with your hands on the back of your head." And that’s the way the cops find Bo when they arrive.

But by the time the patrol car reaches the jail, Bo has managed to work his handcuffed wrists from behind his back to in front of him.

One of the cops later said that Bo is known to pick handcuff locks with a paper clip which he usually carries in his mouth while doing a (burglary) job. The cop laughs, "But Bo told me that when that lady hit him with the frying pan, he swallowed the paper clip."