May 3, 2015
From WFMYNews2.com
WHITSETT, NC — Wildlife Resources Officers are trying to figure out who is responsible for setting a trap that caught and injured a 12-year-old boy in Whitsett.
It took several hours for six doctors to release Sebastian Schorr from the trap.
Sebastian said he was doing chores near a pond in his neighborhood when he reached down for a metal object and his hand was smashed by the trap.
“I put my hand and triggered and it went ‘ting,'” said Sebastian. “It like bothered me a lot and it hurt.”
Officer Darryl Southern with the Wildlife Resources Commission say the trap that caught Sebastian is called a canibear trap, which are legal — even in residential neighborhoods like this one.
Sebastian has some tissue damage in his hand but no broken bones. He’s wearing a cast for a few weeks and his parents say they will set up an appointment with an orthopedic doctor this week.