Aaaargh! Drilled through a wire

Naa…110 volts won’t kill you.[/quote]

Plus the drill was probably one of those plastic-bodied insulated jobs.

Sparkies might correct me here, but I’d guess if it’d been metal-bodied and relying on a (probably non-existent) earth path, then it might have been a bit unpleasant.

In any case: