Electrocuted by my iPhone ear buds?

This is more so a comment than I question... I just wanted to advise that I experienced an electric shock in both ears today from my iPhone ear buds... It was actually quite painful and of course alarming...the ear buds were actually plugged into a PC at the time, (not in my iPhone 4) ....
I saw a few messages about this in 2011, where a few people were complaining about the same thing... I believe the response was that the shock most likely resulted from a static electrical charge, rather than from the product itself.... My only concern is that I've used plenty of ear buds over the years on a regular basis and never experienced this problem... Needless to say I'm very paranoid about using them again...

Was the computer plugged into AC power at the time? It it has a three prong plug then the AC outlet may not be properly grounded or the computer's power cord is defective. This could be dangerous and should be fixed.
If it's a laptop and the charger has a two prong plug, try reversing the plug in the AC outlet, or try a different charger. With a two prong charger there can be AC leakage to the computer case, which will show up on the earphones. This is probably not dangerous but is not desirable. The new EarPods
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD827LL/A/apple-earpods-with-remote-and-mic>
may avoid the problem since they don't have a large metal grill touching the ear.

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