LOL. great story.
Reminds me of when I was a discharge 'virgin'.
I guess at the end of the day you can never be too careful.
When you have done it a few times you tend to relax a bit buts that when you get careless, trust me.
I have had 3 electric shocks from arcade machines.
1st one: Had removed PC monitor from case. While trying to figure out why I had no power to the monitor I realized the cord wasn't in properly so I went to push it in and not paying attention I touched the monitors PCB and kapowww! A nice 240v shaker.
2nd: While reaching inside a machine to undo the catch to open the lid, kapoww! The catch was really tight and when it popped open my arm slipped and 240v into the elbow was nice. Suspect: still to be apprenhended.
3rd: This was the best to date. Had built a cocktail MAME machine and the video card kept losing the drivers so I purchased a new one and was installing that. The PC was off but still plugged in (doh) and I was fiddling around to trying to secure the card into the AGP slot. KAPPOOWWW (note the capital letters) I have know idea what I touched (Suspect: caps on the mobo) but dam is was a beauty. I ended up with a light burn across both my forearms which is where the electricity was exiting against the steel band around the picture tube. While I was being electrocuted it was kind of a surreal experience. I knew what was happening and it didn't really hurt, but I was at the mercy of the arcade gods to release me from the PCs death grip so I can build more machines. Thankfully they let me carry on doing this. When I jelly walked inside and told my partner, she just laughed. Wasn't really funny though

Lesson learnt: UNPLUG EVERYTHING and look out for capacitors on your mobo too.

BTW, the video card still worked, which was good.
