Personally I’d go with cattle-prods and those polycarbonate shields that riot police have, but AT&T seem content to corral potential iPhone owners with a few lengths of rope.  In leaked documents that The Boy Genius Report have gleefully uploaded, AT&T lay out their guidelines for store owners as to how they should arrange lines, how best to deal with negotiating late opening hours with tricksy landlords, and even a deeply unrealistic mock-conversation of how that negotiation might go.

On the day it’s estimated that each store will have around 100 to 250 iPhone handsets in stock at the point of launch; that’s of course not counting those available at Apple Stores.

AT&T iPhone launch deets: crowd control [The Boy Genius Report]