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James McAvoy Actor

SITS AT BRUSSELS ROUNDABOUT, LOGS 23 ACCENTS

Is he counting vehicles at the roundabout? Telepathically.

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
James McAvoy washes a car on a driveway, two fingers pressed to his temple, a tidy row of buckets behind him.
Location
Folding chair beside a Brussels roundabout, opposite a hotel conference centre car park
Currently
Traffic census taker, tallying cars with two fingers to temple
Last confirmed sighting
Tuesday, 07:40, tallying a van that hadn't arrived yet
Observations
Can sense a Ford Transit approaching from eleven postcodes away and tuts at it.

James McAvoy has taken a job counting vehicles at a roundabout outside a Brussels hotel conference centre. He sits on a folding chair with a clicker, an umbrella and a clipboard. Every passing car is logged under one of twenty-three personality columns, each with its own accent.

He is currently producing a full count of cars, vans and lorries between 7am and 7pm. It is going badly, because he presses two fingers to his temple whenever a bus slows, and the bus then stops. A woman named Ingrid has twice been asked to wait while he finishes a sentence.

Monday, 07:00: starts count, doubles it by 07:20 in a different accent. Tuesday, 11:15: a delivery of parcels arrives, which he carries across the road under the umbrella. Thursday, 16:30: the tally reaches 4,112 and a small faun-shaped gap appears in the traffic. Saturday, 09:00: asks for a second clicker.

Guidance for the public

Give way to any van that appears to be thinking about it.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 21 April 1979. Source: Wikidata

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