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Busker dressed as Elmo NYPD arrested for "aggressive solicitation"

Kermit the Frog sang about how it's not easy being green. Apparently, it is not easy, naked and red, either. Rosa Sanchez, like the Sesame Street character dressed Elmo was reportedly arrested for "aggressive solicitation," as the New York Post.

The arrest was the result of a stitch with a dozen plainclothes police, who took a tourist taking pictures with their operation. Sanchez was allegedly "aggressive" about the size of a tip they received. He said the police he found $ 200 in five years and twenty years.

Police released a picture on Twitter of Sanchez in the back with handcuffs. The message was: "Another day in Midtown South in Times Square Elmo arrested .."

Another day in Midtown South. Elmo arrested in Times Square #NYPD #TimesSquare #MTS pic.twitter.com/RibtEH0gVz

- NYPD Midtown South (NYPDMTS) 16th September 2014

Search costumed beggars to pay for people to take pictures with them seemed to be a growing problem in the area of Times Square in Manhattan. The bustling tourist mecca is a popular destination for restaurants, theaters and other entertainment.

But the carnival atmosphere with people as characters from the animated action movies and live television was attracted marked by discord.

Earlier this week, for example, two men were each Batman and Spiderman are attacked disturbing and were arrested, according to WNBC-TV. Other characters that temporary guests of the police had become until September Woody from Toy Story, Minnie Mouse, and the Statue of Liberty. They had grown up with a family to take pictures, and then demanded € 5 each, whose family had refused to pay.

The costumed people affected began to rise when someone dressed as Spiderman allegedly struck a police officer in July, according to the New York Post.

Worried about the costumed crusaders are not new. Concerns about the unpleasant behavior, including someone in a suit Woody urinating in a doorway in broad daylight, had many calling for the regulation of the so-called models of months ago when a group of companies in Times Square Alliance, told Gothamist blog in April:

"Super Mario saw the woman," the president of the Times Square Alliance, Tim Tompkins says. "Elmo ranting anti-Semitic stuff. Spider-Man met a woman in the face. Now a child was attacked by Cookie Monster. And only those in which it has an arrest are! 'Ve anecdotally heard there are a lot more than was going on. One of my employees said an Elmo patted the buttocks, as they in Times Square a day full of people walking. "

Entertainers dressed public support in a press conference , be to make a living by WNBC.

And again, like the New York Daily News points out, it could be worse than they were in the 1980s, as "Times Square was a parade of junkies, prostitutes, pimps and hickories that seemed straight out of jail or soon to be in one. "

Perhaps the Justice League of America to step in and order.