picture this you're a brand-new researcher at the SCP foundation and
you've just been stationed at site 19 you've heard tell of some of the more
terrifying anomalous entities under containment but for the most part
they're shut away safe and sound under the Foundation's lock and key there is
one entity that you've heard murmurs of though scp-173 a giant grotesque
concrete statue but there has a habit of snapping people's necks if they're
incompetent enough to break line of sight with it and just as you turn the
corner into an empty corridor on your first day at work you see it staring at
you from the other end of the walkway oh yeah exactly
quite the predicament hello internet what's going on and once again welcome
back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube life's biggest questions as per
usual I'll be your disembodied flowing voice Jack Finch as today we curiously
ask the question what if scp-173 escaped roll the clip
don't blink don't even blink blink and you're dead they are fast
don't turn your back don't look away and don't blink yeah you heard the doctor
because in this impending oculus showdown your only chance of survival is
to sticky-tape your eyes open and hope for the best
also for the curious amongst you that clip was from David Tennant's resounding
iteration of Doctor Who as he waged a resistance against the cosmically
horrifying weeping angels mechanically speaking the weeping angels are
incredibly similar to the anomalous scp-173 but it was in fact the SCP
sculpture that first appeared a few months prior before the 2007 Doctor Who
episode aptly titled blink coincidence perhaps but that's by the by for those
of you that haven't seen our scp-173 lvq based video now is perhaps high time to
check it out so you can better understand the anomalous implications of
this hypothetical event for those of you that haven't though let's paint a brief
picture of just what exactly you're hypothetically staring down and yeah
it's not good as the record stays scp-173 is an anomalous entity of
unknown origin there's been under foundation containment since at least
the early 90s it is a statue like creature constructed from concrete and
rebar haphazardly adorned with Krylon brand spray-paint
despite its otherwise gargoyle esque appearance scp-173 is animate
extremely hostile yet the kicker is the object cannot move while in direct
line-of-sight it is the only golden rule that
line-of-sight must not be broken at any time with 173 and personnel assigned to
enter his containment area are instructed to alert one another before
blinking yeah you can see exactly why you're under such imminent doom right
and also you might be thinking if it's so dangerous why even bother cleaning it
don't let him out but there's something a little more to it that we'll get to
later just remember for now no blinking when that fails though and sorry but it
inevitably always does the objects method of attack is reported to be
snapping the neck in the base of the skull or in rare and more horrifying
instances straight-up strangulation now I'm not exactly sure how one could be
asphyxiated by statue but I for one aren't planning to find that out anytime
soon in this instance though you are in fact
the unfortunate soul staring down scp-173 in all its concrete gory glory
so let's see what are your options as you may imagine they're few and far
between it isn't exactly known how the foundation contains the object after a
given breach but we do know that there is a containment procedure enacted by
one of the o5 councils more capable mobile task force is presumably by
shutting 173 away in a sealed container and wheeling it safely back to its vault
your only option though is to try your damnedest not to blink and wait for the
MTF to show up and save the day just don't blink because if you do poof
snap Nick good night Vienna and now it's someone else's problem the average human
unconsciously blinks around fifteen or sixteen times a minute yet when actively
trying not to blink the average length is anywhere between thirty seconds to
several minutes now you may know someone who's really really good at staring
contest but for the most part the average human has difficulty in keeping
their eyes open for a long period of time there are some recorded staring
contests that have been held for as long as 30 to 40 minutes but all of them pale
in comparison to this kit julio haami an american who managed to go without
blinking for an insane 1-hour five minutes and 26 seconds in this instance
Julio would be pretty much safe and sound as he waited the MTF to show up
and save the day good job buddy but unfortunately for you
it's incredibly unlikely that you have that kind of ocular fortitude even when
you pumped full of adrenaline and every
fiber of your being is telling you to turn tail and run away from this
lightning quick streak of murderous concrete in actual fat your only hope of
survival is the slight chance that some other unfortunate salt would
accidentally stumble upon the same corridor in that unlikely event that
that happened you could coordinate your blinking long enough for the MTF to rock
up and save the day and everyone's a winner success you survived as they say
many hands make light work and many eyes make yeah I forgot how that one goes the
much more likely scenario though is that you actually blinked in terror as soon
as you laid eyes on scp-173 after all it's your first day and you're still
getting to grips with the whole anomalous baby-sitter deal yeah the SCP
foundation has a pretty high employee turnover go figure
in actual fact though scp-173 poses an incredibly high risk of leading to what
is commonly known as an XK class extinction event often referred to as a
very very bad thing remember when we asked why you'd even
bother to clean won 7-3 containment area if it was so damn dangerous to look at
well that's because it secretes a bizarre anomalous substance made up of
blood and feces that when left unchecked leads to the sculpture replicating
itself over and over again gaining more intelligence as it exponentially grows
like a horrifying honeycomb hivemind in fact once there are more than one of
these guys the odds of survival quickly become slimmer and slimmer as all ocular
angles and lines of sight are rapidly diminished to a point of no return it's
simple mathematics really as the record states in scp-1730 wised entry the
Foundation's only option after facing a mass containment breach of site 19 and
then subsequent in the whole of North and South America was to level the
entire continent under a remote nuclear bombardment and then keep an eye locked
on the ocean for the horrifying off chance that these sculptures can somehow
swim although the cannon of this entry isn't always accepted by some the latest
recorded sighting of scp-173 was in Wales of all places so yeah turns out
these guys can swim oh so if that hypothetical event of this hypothetical
scenario isn't already horrifying enough I cannot stress the importance of this
matter enough if you're walking around site 19 as a brand new researcher of the
SCP foundation on your first day in office and you just so
happened to stumble into scp-173 at the end of an abandoned corridor do not
blink not even once because the fate of the world may depend
on it well there we have it our field guide in an attempt to answer the
question what if scp-173 escaped what do you guys think what are you let us know
your thoughts in the comment section down below as well as any choice tips
and tricks to surviving a17 3xk class event before we depart from today's
video let's take a quick look at some of your more resounding remarks from our
most recent SCP based video first up the judgey says lbq you are too
closed and research on the foundation or we will react accordingly JK it was a
nice video though oh geez you you worried me there a little bit buddy it's
been a while since I've been pulled up by the powers that be oh you're just
kidding right next up the j-man 4 4 5 says Jack are
you yourself and SCP I mean a disembodied floating voice is definitely
SCP worthy of course you are part of the o-5 Council so I don't know hey wait a
minute how how do you know that's meant to be confidential information let's
just say I'm a bit of an anomalous entity yeah it's hard to explain anyway
on that inconspicuous note that's unfortunately all we've got time for in
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