Monitor - what the hell?

[McMadman]

First off I have a Philips CM0200, its about 7 years old (amazing as it is)

I turned it off, sprayed with glass cleaner (no anti glare so it's safe)

After clean, I turned the monitor on, my thumb was close to the screen, I got shocked and the monitor was black, turned it off after seeing nothing. After a few minutes of having it turned off, I turned it back on again and its actually still alive!

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

 

[lung]

It was probably just static electricity. Nothing to really worry about. It's actually really easy to shock yourself with a monitor like that...

 

[McMadman]

The discharge wasn't what made me post this, but the fact that it acted dead when I turned it back on, one of these days a new monitor is required, this ones max is 1024x768 and unreadable
800x600x60hz is the best it can easily handle.