Photographer who found bomb: 'You see a lot of junk on the street in New York'

Jane Schreibman got a telephone call about 10 p.m. Saturday asking whether she was all right. Until then, the photographer hadn't realized that a bomb had exploded on 23rd Street, just four blocks from her apartment, so she bolted downstairs to take a look at what was going on. That's when she saw a strange object a few paces from her building's front door. "I thought it was a child's science experiment,'' said Schreibman, 66, in a telephone interview. It was a shiny metal pressure cooker with wires coming out and a rectangular object attached that was wrapped in duct tape. There was a white plastic bag next to it, but she couldn't tell whether it was just garbage that had blown nearby. "It was a funny-looking object.