Electro-Static Discharge- How NOT to Do It

I have a degree in electronics, but I actually haven’t played with circuit boards in earnest since college. And even then, we never played with an ESD gun. We DID, however get to discharge several big CRTs, which is essentially a giant capacitor- and when those are discharged, they pop quite loudly and it makes your hair stand on end. Good times. But this is a video on how NOT to handle ESD.