SCP-1040-J

Item #: SCP-1040-J

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Plan 1040-Omega is to be implemented as soon as possible by way of Foundation front Society of Concerned Parents. After implementation, it is to remain in effect perpetually.

Description: SCP-1040-J is an effect, first documented in 1998,¹ that has spread in scope from the early 20th Century onwards to now affect the vast majority of adult humans in the United States.

Subjects under the influence of SCP-1040-J are beholden to a complex internal logic that, to this date, has defied all attempts at analysis. They will repeatedly display behavior harmful to themselves and others, the scope and severity of which constitutes a Keter-level threat. Left unchecked, SCP-1040-J has the potential to cause an AK-class end-of-civilization scenario.

Further characterization of SCP-1040-J is ongoing.

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Selected 1040-J Incidents. Level 2 and above only.

Incident 1040-J-264
Vehicle: 1997 Dodge Grand Caravan
Driver: Caucasian female, circa 75yo
Description: Subject 264 was observed to repeatedly attempt to move into highway traffic at circa 5-10mph below the average speed of the prevailing traffic flow, almost striking Foundation researcher Dr. D. D███████'s vehicle.

Incident 1040-J-030
Vehicle: 2012 Dodge Ram
Driver: African-American female, est. 25yo
Description: Subject 030 was observed applying cosmetic products to her face at a stop light; when the light changed, Subject 030 suddenly accelerated, narrowly missing the vehicle of Foundation researcher Dr. D. D███████.

Incident 1040-J-1054
Vehicle: 2007 Ford Mustang GT
Driver: Asian male, est. 40yo
Description: Subject 1054 was observed to abruptly pull into the right lane of Interstate ██ north of ██████ and immediately decelerate for no discernible reason. Foundation researcher Dr. D. D███████, who was previously maintaining a sensible two-meter following distance, was forced to initiate emergency maneuvers.

Incident 1040-J-667
Vehicle: 2009 Ford Escape
Driver: Caucasian female, est. 30yo
Description: Subject 667 remained stopped for approx. 3 sec too long at a Stop sign when prevailing conditions clearly allowed the subject to proceed, leading another vehicle², coming up behind, to collide with Vehicle-667's rear bumper.

Incident 1040-J-658
Vehicle: 2006 Honda Civic
Driver: Foundation researcher Dr. A. Estevez
Description: On ██/██/████, Foundation researcher Dr. D. D███████'s vehicle was deliberately struck by that of Foundation researcher Dr. A. Estevez. Displaying typical SCP-1040-J-influenced behavior, Dr. Estevez suggested that the reason for the collision was in fact Dr. D███████ looking at text messages on his cellular phone while driving through the Site-██ parking lot. However, evidence provided by leading experts on SCP-1040-J³ suggests that the probability of such a sequence of events approaches zero.

Incident 1040-J-9212
Vehicle: 1965 [DATA EXPUNGED]
Driver: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Description: Subject 9212 ███████████████████████████████████████████████, followed by Foundation researcher Dr. D. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████.

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Addendum to Incident 1040-J-9212. Level 4 and above only.

Special Instruction: The remains of Dr. Derekson's Corvette are to be removed to Disposal Area 056-B and crushed. Also, if anyone knows of an area body shop that does quality work on vintage roadsters, I would appreciate the tip. — O5-9

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Footnotes

1. Derekson, D., An Insidious Contagion, Proc. SCP Fndn. 1998, 14(5), 65-67

2. Driven by Foundation researcher Dr. D. D███████

3. See Citation 1 above.