While Collecting Trash, Woman Finds Homemade Bomb

CHICAGO (CBS) -- As she often does, Nora Schultz set out in her neighborhood with a trash cart, trying to keep the area tidy.

What she brought back to her LaPorte, Ind., home the other day was hardly typical debris.

It was a homemade bomb.

Now investigators are working to determine who made it, and why.

"The most disgusting things are the dirty diapers, the condoms and the needles. This tops it by far," Schultz told CBS 2's Audrina Bigos.

On Monday afternoon, she came across some Mason jars, tossed them with the rest of the trash and went home.

Then she noticed a 12-inch wick and she called police.

Bomb technicians showed up and detonated it.

Luckily for Nora, it wasn't a ticking time bomb. The device had to be ignited to explode.

"Not knowing you are carrying a bomb. I mean, who thinks that?" Schultz said.

Authorities said the device was made to injure people.

Investigators are analyzing the bomb's materials for fingerprints.