Is it dead? Please tell me it's dead. (UPDATE: I didn't napalm myself)

oh ew! that gives me the creepies just thinking about it.

Maybe if you go vacuum up some gravel or something it will squish it the rest of the way. Ewww!

Lol about the napalm. Can you set the vacuum outside so when it does crawl out at least its not in the house? Otherwise I second the gravel idea.......then duct taping any exit out of the vacuum and leaving it for a week....or month.

Sigh. Why do I insist on opening these threads?? I'm getting all creepy crawly feeling just thinking about it! That thing is probably still alive. maybe take the canister outside and dump it?

This thread is freaking me out. I HATE Spiders. I would be afraid...very, very afraid.

Maybe put it outside until you can get backup?

Was it a wolf spider? I was bitten 2 yrs ago and that was a horrible experience.

Maybe, if you can't find any napalm, sucking up some borax in the vacuum would kill it if it's still alive.

YOU are a genius! What a great idea!

Umm...would borax powder kill a vacuum though?

How. Scary.

Hey! I thought I'd update! (Sorry, my MIL was in town and I had to break the MDC addiction for a few days...)

Well, I didn't see it drag itself out of my vacuum. Not to say it didn't. But for extra measure I sucked up some guinea pig poops (those turdbuckets) and hoped that those did the trick. Then I waited for my unsuspecting husband to come home and let him empty the canister without telling him what had transpired. He thought it was weird that I was watching him do it with such...anticipation. Later he read my blog (that I basically copy and pasted the OP into) and he was a *little* upset that I hadn't told him there was a potentially still-alive and pissed-off spider in there. Oh well. It's easier to make it up to him than to get my hand sheared off by its menacing jaws.