"It turned out to be a novelty device, which was made several years ago," said Michigan State Police Trooper Rudy Gonzalez. "It was fashioned to be a clock, which looked to be sticks of dynamite that are bundled together, which at first glance would've looked like a bomb." Odd a teen would either buy or make his own clock which looks like a toy bomb....and odder still the stepmother "just" saw it, if it's several years old.