'Cowards' Billboard Lights Up Boston Skyline in Wake of Blasts (Courtesy: Local 103 IBEW)

[Omaha Steve]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/cowards-billboard-lights-boston-skyline-wake-blasts-172005463--abc-news-topstories.html

By Katie Kindelan | ABC News Blogs – Thu, Apr 18, 2013 2:53 PM EDT

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Good Morning America/(Courtesy: Local 103 IBEW) -


Less than 10 miles from the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where three people were killed and more than 170 injured in dual blasts on Monday, lies a billboard with a one-word message: "Cowards."

The billboard, located off the I-93 expressway that crosses the city, belongs to the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union. The chapter, Local 103, usually uses the billboard for union-related and community messages but that changed Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after the two bombs exploded.

Since then, the electronic billboard had rotated every 10 seconds between the "Cowards" sign and another that reads, "Pray for Boston."

"It was Local 103's way of shouting out our feelings of anger:

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(Courtesy: Local 103 IBEW) "It was Local 103's way of shouting out our feelings of anger: Cowards," business manager Michael P. Monahan told ABCNews.com.

FULL story at link.

[gateley]

1. Show these to the Al Q devotees who are celebrating because we are scared.

[graham4anything]

2. Every cop and fireman is a good union worker.

Don't let the haters and hateperps get you down.
They bring nothing to the table but bring it down, burn it down, and not realize what is left the next morning.

Ironic enough is, when the haters burn something down, it takes a Union fireman to put that fire out.

BRAVO! to the police, the federal law enforcement, the fire department, EMS and all the other Great Union workers that make America great.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. It would be nice if the message were a little more,,, I dunno.... *transcendent*, perhaps.

1. They weren't "cowards". They were a lot of things but not that.

2. Pray: A lot of people feel this creates more trouble than it solves.

[DoBotherMe]

4. I'll kick it for you Steve!

My son just joined the Teamsters working for UPS! YAY! Dana ; )

[niyad]

5. k and r

[limpyhobbler]

6. God Bless Boston.

I'm so glad they caught the bastards who did it.