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Five firetrucks later, the police proved to be less than sympathetic with the plight of the single lady as she struggled to deal with the arachnid. [According to the _Hutchinson News_](http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local%5Fstate%5Fnews/woman-charged-with-arson-for-setting-small-fire-to-kill/article%5Ff9c4a13e-d162-5d0a-8fa2-a3ba00ffab26.html), 34-year-old Ginny M. Griffith’s [Macgyvered](http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/MacGyver.html) form of pest control (lighting towels on fire throughout her house) was rewarded with an arrest and aggravated arson charges. She is being held on a $7,500 bond. No one, including the other people who occupied the other half of the duplex, was injured, and the fire was extinguished in minutes without causing structural damage. \[[_Hutchinson News_](http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local%5Fstate%5Fnews/woman-charged-with-arson-for-setting-small-fire-to-kill/article%5Ff9c4a13e-d162-5d0a-8fa2-a3ba00ffab26.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2941320/kansas-woman-sets-house-on-fire-to-kill-spider/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2941320/kansas-woman-sets-house-on-fire-to-kill-spider/"},"headline":"Kansas Woman Sets House on Fire to Kill Spider","datePublished":"2014-06-30T20:04:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:16.272Z","description":"No one was injured","url":"https://time.com/2941320/kansas-woman-sets-house-on-fire-to-kill-spider/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Bizarre","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20ec6ea64ce4dd4a/698699f4e8524b3d1d603b29/134437260.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20ec6ea64ce4dd4a/698699f4e8524b3d1d603b29/134437260.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"spider","caption":"134437260","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2941320/kansas-woman-sets-house-on-fire-to-kill-spider/","name":"Kansas Woman Sets House on Fire to Kill Spider"}}]}] ```