Static Electricity

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For those who have difficulty coming to grips with the how static electricity works/interferes/interacts with your car/or anything else

Static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material.

The charge remains until it is able to move away by means of an electric current or electrical discharge..

For modeling the effect of static discharge on sensitive electronic devices, a human being is represented as a capacitor of 100 picofarads, charged to a voltage of 4000 to 35000 volts. When touching an object this energy is discharged in less than a microsecond..
Are you having a little trouble understanding this?

If so, the next photo should clear things up!

Static Electricity in motion...