
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.
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Since then, the electronic billboard had rotated every 10 seconds between the "Cowards" sign and another that reads, "Pray for Boston."
(Courtesy: Local 103 IBEW) "It was Local 103's way of shouting out our feelings of anger: