Wiper switch circuit breaker and a jolt

"12 volts won't shock you so it has to be something else"
Put one finger on positive post and one on negative post of your car battery & see what happens. Nothing….
agreed BUT...

Load up a starter motor and break the feed wire while touching ground and the post and guess what... ZAP.

a coil winding of a motor is very much like an ignition coil. That's what Mike69cuda was trying to point out.

2 volts won’t shock you, so it has to be something else. I would think that you may be on to something with the wiper motor. If the wiper motor is on and stuck, it would pull a lot of current. When the circuit breaker opens, it breaks the current flow. When you break the current flow on an inductive circuit like a motor, the voltage rises to to try & keep the current the same. This is how your ignition system works.

Ask me how I know about the starter motor!:mad: