Benny "The Rock Stacker" has a Posse

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Article from "The Stanger":by Brendan Kiley
Hanging in the Balance
City Boots Fremont Street Artist; Some Neighbors Say Good Riddance

On the other hand, maybe not all publicity is good publicity.

Fawzi Benhariz, also known as Benny, also known as "the rock balancer," has been building intricately balanced rock sculptures in Fremont for more than two years. The City of Seattle has shut down his sidewalk sculptures in part, Benny thinks, because of a profile of him in the April issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine. Some locals, who describe Benny as a great artist and neighborhood icon, are pissed; others, who say he's a moody public nuisance, are relieved.

Roughly two weeks after the profile was published, and two years after Benny began regularly building his rock sculptures, the city's Department of Transportation said he had tto have a Street Use permit..."