{"id":835,"date":"2012-11-10T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/?p=835"},"modified":"2012-11-10T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T22:00:20","slug":"nearly-killed-myself-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/nearly-killed-myself-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly killed myself today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly killed myself this morning. I drilled a hole through a mains cable and if it wasn&#8217;t for the rubber handle on the drill my wife would be saying goodbye to me down the morgue. I scared myself witless<\/p>\n<p>Even though I shot across the room with shock and an unbelievable urge to remove myself from the vicinity of the sparks and the smoke I truly feel that it was my father in law&#8217;s drill that actually stopped me from killing myself. My old drill years ago was metal cased and this one is rubbery plasticy stuff &#8211; I&#8217;m sure this stopped the electricity hitting me. Today I found out that the fuse box is a bit too old and didnt actually break the circuit &#8211; although it did wipe out half the plug sockets in the house !<\/p>\n<p>The electrician says I wiped out the live wire and the outer spiky bits on the wide drill bit (was drilling a 1&#8243; hold to feed cables between rooms) must have caught the earth to complete the circuit and kerboom. On the upside he reckoned that whoever wired the house was a numpty and dragged the wires at a 45 degree angle so commented that literally anyone would have had the same problem. When he knocked a hole in the wall to fix the problem, the wires were also where Chez was suggesting I drill too so at least the &#8220;I told you so&#8221; isnt valid&#8230; I think the picture of the drill bit sums everything up &#8211; it was enough to wipe out the edges of the drill bit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sparky-e1352584388398.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-836\" title=\"sparky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sparky-e1352584388398-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sparky-e1352584388398-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sparky-e1352584388398.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly killed myself this morning. I drilled a hole through a mains cable and if it wasn&#8217;t for the rubber handle on the drill my wife would be saying goodbye to me down the morgue. I scared myself witless Even though I shot across the room with shock and an unbelievable urge to remove [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-family","category-the-house","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}