G8 wooden themed window shopping

New shop window designs caused by Police scaring businesses into losing trade.
I missed all the action on the streets today so found myself wandering along all the tourist trails like Prince's St taking touristy photos. Couldn't help noticing that many of the shops around Edinburgh had adopted a similar minimalist wooden theme for their window displays.

Seriously though, about 1 in 20 shops were boarded up with ugly shuttering. As far as I know, none of the shops had actually suffered broken windows and the shuttering was probably all pre-emptive. The poor gullible managers of these shops had obviously gone along with all the media hype fueled by police press releases predicting - near as dammit - all out war on the streets. The boarded shops must have lost significant trade as a result of the punters being unable to view all the flashy consumerist tat from the pavement. Doubtless a stink will be kicked up in the media about how the protesters have been the sole cause of the businesses' loss of precious profits and the likely cost of all the over the top policing for ratepayers. The police will therefore crow that without all their dire warnings & over-the-top policing, businesses would have lost even more profits, justifying the enormous police overtime pay claims and also increasing the likelihood of them receiving increased future funding for their crowd control tactics and also dangerous new hi-tech crowd control toys.