spiders

I park my car in the neighbor's parking garage because nobody currently lives there. The garbage-can area (which is right next to the parking garage) has this huge web in the corner. It's huge and very thick. I like to spit my gum into the middle of it and marvel how the web stops it from hitting the ground.

Today, as I was heading out to my car for dinner, I found a little twig and tossed it into the thick of the web. It didn't go too far before the web stopped it. I thought that was pretty neat... before I saw a shiny spider peek out from a pole that was part of the garbage-can area. It was huge (3/4") and I thought I saw something red on it. I looked closer, and sure enough, there was a little red hourglass on this black widow.

Added for creepification factor

I was stunned with fear. I'm not generally scared of spiders, I just kill them as soon as I get a chance. However, this was my first time confirming that I was, indeed, looking at a poisonous spider that could seriously harm me. I think I was justified in being scared.

Now I've got this poisonous black widow that I've apparently aggravated plenty of times without knowing it, and I'm sure she wants revenge. How do I kill a spider that barely pokes its head out of a pole? I've considered spraying it with something, but it would retreat before I could get a confirmed kill. I'd shoot it with my BB gun at point-blank range if I wasn't worried about it ricocheting all over the place. I can't just stick a hose in the pole: that wouldn't confirm its deadness. I'm thinking I could just lure it out, then quickly smash it with a stick, but if I miss or hit it at a funny angle, she'd retreat too damn fast.

Is a Molotov cocktail overkill?

I would use a vacuum cleaner to just suck it up, but there's always the chance that it'll get stuck in the tube, and then I'd have to throw away the bag for sure, and hell if I'm going to waste a whole vacuum bag on one stupid spider. Even if that spider could seriously harm me.