If you find something that looks like a bomb, do not bring it home.

That's the message from the Nelson Police Department after a teenager in the community discovered an active pipe bomb along a highway and brought it back to his residence.

It happened Aug. 12, according to Insp. Jason Jewkes, when a 14-year-old, found the device in the neighbouring community of Trail.

Jewkes described the device as "a metal cylinder with caps on each end and a fuse coming out of an end and then wrapped around with large nails," measuring about five inches long.

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When the teen's parents learned of the device, which Jewkes called an improvised explosive device or pipe bomb, they immediately locked it in a storage shed and called police.

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