to want all these floating people hosed off the streets

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The first time I saw one it was kinda interesting, but now they are everywhere and a real eyesore. They seem to operate in gangs. Why don't the police do something to get rid of them?

Have you seen Hot Fuzz OP? Is it for the greater good and all that?

There was a statue type in a local town once. As I was passing he let out a terrific yell. Made me jump and terrified a small child that was nearby, she burst out crying. Don't know if he wanted money, but I certainly wasn't giving him any after that.

Do they actually harm anyone? If not, leave them alone.
We don't have floating people in our small town but we do have an occassional panpipe player and a sand artist. I doubt they make much money though, people are tight here (got to admit, I am and never give money for things like this).

I like street performers, York wouldn't be York without Purple Man in Stonegate. Amanda Palmer's "Art of Asking" is quite insightful about life as living statue.

However, I'd love any busker to be banned from using amps.

I'm with the late, great Terry Pratchett on this.

“It was said that [Vetinari] would tolerate absolutely anything apart from anything that threatened the city*... [Footnote] And mime artists. It was a strange aversion, but there you are. Anyone in baggy trousers and a white face who tried to ply their art anywhere within Ankh's crumbling walls would very quickly find themselves in a a scorpion pit, on one wall of which was painted the advice: Learn The Words.”

lol floating people do you mean ghost?

There is usually a pole running along their sleeve to a platform they sit or stand on. Hence why there is usually a staff or something in their hand.

I don't really understand how they do it either not that I've put much thought into it but hats off to them for standing there for hours on end. I would die of boredom after no time at all.

Has anyone ever seen one setting up, or getting down? Surely they must need refreshments and the toilet after a while?

If you can bring yourself to look at it, it's all in that Daily Mail link above. They get there at 6am to set up and secure the pitch before there's anyone else there. I assume they either have very capacious bladders or are resigned to having problems... All for £20 a day. Not much, is it?

We have a few in our city centre. I don't mind them, they don't ask for anything, I have never seen them speak actually. Also never given any money to them. I think hosing them is harsh.

I've never come across them in the city I work in.
Theres a young guy who occasionally plays "drums" on what looks like plastic paint pots, I can never really see the point of his "act". I wouldnt hose him off the streets though.