WHDH reports Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, plans to bill Sony for
the chaos caused at Copley Place yesterday. According to WHDH it took
12 police officers to clear the "crazed gamers" and the city blames
the Sony Style store. Unlike the Landmark Center Best Buy, which
prevented a bad situation from occuring, the Sony Style store
provoked it by withholding launch numbers, not allowing pre-orders
and having a laissez-faire system in place for launch. Billing for
police time could happen across the country with stores that withheld
launch details causing a preventable situation to turn ugly.
