Actually you might jest...
When i did my Royal Engineers Search Course in Northern Ireland we were taught that the person who discovered the device, or got the closest to it, would have to do a sketch and personally hand it over to the ATO (the one that wears the bomb suit) along with as...
I don't really want to get involved in speculation here (although I realise i am)... Having had a fair amount of training in the military on what might be deemed 'suspicious' and then put that into practice in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, if i saw that 'item' by the roadside, buried...