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Driving on carpet

So my team was driving around on a carpeted part of the shop today and spinning the wheels all over the place for about 5 minutes. When one of the mentors on the team went to go touch the chassis he got a pretty big shock from it. Apparently the plastic has the "wool socks on carpet" effect. Is this something I should be looking out for? I mean...some of the components in the kit came in special bags to protect against static shock, I would hate to ruin all the components on the board because I touched them . Anyone else experienced this??
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