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If you have a link for that I would like to read it.

I was certain that I read it yesterday, but it's not in any of the articles posted at FR. I'll do a broader search and try to find it again.

It was a newspaper carrier that thought it was a tractor part.

This is from a QC Times article (link goes to a different story now), but it was posted on this thread, Post 158.

The first hint that Friday was not going to be like most other days was too subtle.
Between the rural, pre-dawn darkness and the shadowy hollow of a roadside mailbox, the Quad-City Times newspaper carrier was not sure what she was seeing.
At 6 a.m., the odd-looking device inside the mailbox at 22624 130th Ave. looked to her like a tractor part that had been left there by a thoughtful neighbor. She simply slid the newspaper behind the device and closed the mailbox door.
But 49 minutes later, when Shelli Ann Engelbrecht went to retrieve her newspaper, it was apparent the device inside the mailbox was no tractor part.
Within a half-hour of the call to Scott County sheriff’s deputies, the Quad-City Bomb Squad was about to begin a very long day.

I shudder to think that it might have blown up on this poor kid.