<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

This scenario involved a room with a lightswitch on one wall, a table in the center of the floor, and a toy "panic button" sitting on the table. The toy is essentially a battery-operated button that makes a siren noise when you push it. No other items were on the table.

What happened: The lights were off, so I walked across the floor to turn on the lightswitch. The instant my finger touched the lightswitch and pushed it on, a nasty jolt of static electricity discharged between my fingertip and the lightswitch. Simultaneously, the panic button toy (resting four feet away on top of a table) was activated, and began blaring siren noises. In no way did I make contact with the toy or the table it was sitting on. Startled by the noise, I flipped the lightswitch back off, and the noise immediately ceased. Subsequent attempts to replicate the phenomenon were unsuccessful.

I don't know much about electronics, but I know I must have completed some kind of circuit between the floor, the wires in the wall, and the toy. Was this done through indirect contact with the toy via the table/floor, or was this an electrical field of some kind?
<bot>: Got shocked by a lightswitch, and a battery-operated electronic toy became activated halfway across the room. How do?