we have whittled ours down to 1. in the 80s we had an iranian immigrant set fire to himself when he was refused asylam, after that he was accepted but he used to walk around and scare people!
heres our last remaining one doing his "cabaret act".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_b0fjSY8E
at least he's trying to 'entertain', rather than just sit there and ask for money.
we had one, a woman that looked like jimi hendrix, and she used to shout '50p for a hot meal' and id think 'lady where can you get a hot meal for 50p, i need to know cos im going to stock up'.
one day two other homeless blokes 'moved in' and they used to shout at her from across the street 'youre not homeless' and theyd have a slanging match across the road in the middle of the town. was hilarious. she was clearly not all there.
then one day im in the record shop and i look out the window and shes got her tongue down the neck of some old man and then is later seen coming out of a bush with someone else.
rank.
not seen her around for a long time. i guess just like the great jimi her time came to an end...