Amid all the different news articles about the weirdness that was the PS3 launch, as violent as some of those events were, perhaps nothing really captured the "before, during and after" feeling as much as the coverage of the Boston PS3 launch at Copley Place.

Let us work in reverse order. Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston, wants to bill Sony (or at least the Sony Style Store) for the fiasco that occurred as a result of the PS3 launch. The fiasco mentioned above was the rush of a few hundred people trying to get in line at the Sony Style Store in Copley Place, which came as a result of bad planning and implementation on the part of Sony Style staff.

The incident could have been averted but was provoked instead by, as Joystiq mentions of that particular Sony store, "withholding launch numbers, not allowing pre-orders and having a laissez-faire system in place for launch." The bill would probably include the use of the police and their vehicles, so you can assume it the payment would be somewhat hefty.

As for the the extent of the mob frenzy created by at the Copley mall, we turn to two videos of the incident in front of Sony Style. These two vids happened from the opposite sides of the fence, and it's rather disheartening to see this happening because of bad planning.