PITA is not going to be happy with you!
Looks like your wife got the job done! Man i hate those things!
We winter in AZ and fortunately, by the time we leave to come back to MI, not too many are out yet but a few are. I had one in my driveway a couple of years ago - wasn't as big as yours but a quick smack with the shovel ended it. I was telling a neighbor to be on the "look out" as it had warmed up enough that they wee out. She got all upset with me when she found out I had killed it. (Gee . . .I felt bad). I then explained that i had not killed it . . . the snake had spotted me and was coming after me so fast that when I held my shovel up, it committed suicide by smacking its head into the shovel. I wonder ho she'd feel if she stepped out of her house and right on top of one?