I got bit by a big capacitor trying to take apart a disposable camera as a kid. I immediately threw it across the room. I was being very dumb, I heard it charge

I got bit by a big capacitor trying to take apart a disposable camera as a kid. I immediately threw it across the room. I was being very dumb, I heard it charge (I was prying with a screwdriver and shorted something that caused it to charge) but didn't register the danger. The biggest jolt I ever got (also as a kid, I guess I must've learned eventually) was from a giant homemade capacitor I thought I had discharged fully after charging it with a van de Graaf generator. I fully grabbed both electrodes at the same time - very stupid, not as stupid as pulling the trigger on a gun you only think is unloaded but stupid in a pretty similar way. Must've created a circuit right through my heart. No idea what it's capacitance was, but it was made of I think about a foot of 2 inch PVC and aluminum foil, so not insubstantial. But I don't have any scars, so I guess I got off easy!