Oh you can say it. That was back in the 70's. Today is not much different. Only, you're right, one has to be careful with lawsuits.I won’t say you are weird, Tony, but...
I did some ESD classes and set up some pretty interesting rigs to demonstrate static charge and transfer. I was quickly told to stop using volunteers to sit in plastic lawn chairs wearing sweats and holding beryllium copper rods to transfer energy from person to person. Was also asked to take my old Console TV home, the one with very high voltage flyback. Used to have a chain of people stand around the perimeter of the room each holding onto one end of a fluorescent tube, with me at the front of the chain. Waving the free end of the tube behind the TV EVERYONE's tube would glow. High voltage static transferring from person to person via the tubes. It was a hit of the show but the bosses felt like I was endangering lives. They didn't ask me to do many more classes on ESD.
Weird? Yes. Admittedly so. And proud of it.
Speaking of "Weird" - back in the late 60's I took accordion lessons in Montebello CA. In the same classroom was this strange and very talented kid playing the accordion with the rest of us. His name is Alan Yankovic. You may know him as "Weird Al". We weren't friends or anything like that. We just took classes in the same place at the same time.
Now - back on topic. Shock from capacitors. It happens. My favorite way of discharging caps is use of a pencil lead.