[gaijin]

I'm pretty sure that they took down Nelson's statue, and replaced it (temporarily, I believe) with a smaller statue of either a homeless person, or some nameless indian.

This would have been a month ago.

And I'm not kidding.

[Winniesboy]

No. Nelson is untouched atop his column. What you've read about is other statues on lower plinths in Trafalgar Sqare, of which there are several.

[Gondring]

Are you talking about this...from a few years back?
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/caribbean/statue.htm

[Da_Shrimp]

I'm pretty sure that they took down Nelson's statue, and replaced it (temporarily, I believe) with a smaller statue of either a homeless person, or some nameless indian.

That's completely untrue. Where did you get the information from? Nelson has never been removed from his column, nor shall he be.