By Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com
Published: 20:34 GMT, 9 March 2019 | Updated: 20:34 GMT, 9 March 2019
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This is the heart-stopping moment a five-year-old Florida boy gets trapped in a water cooler during a game of hide and seek as his desperate parents look for him.
Surveillance footage captures little Nicholas Wanes, from Pompano Beach, getting locked inside the box after it automatically closed with him inside.
His fingers be seen through the gap before the cooler locks and he can no longer push it open from the inside.
Moments later his mom Maria and dad Robert can be seen running into the room after hearing his muffled screams. For a few seconds they are not able to work out where their son is.
They eventually realize he is inside the cooler and are able to free him after unlocking it from the outside.
Nicholas Wanes can be seen getting inside the cooler on the patio of his home in Pompano Beach. He pulls down the lid of the trunk to play a game of hide and seek
The youngster crawls inside the box after spending the day on the water with his family
