Florida boy gets caught in cooler while playing, and it is claimed that security is recalled
A Florida boy found himself trapped in a cooler while playing hiding and walking, and led to several security memories.
The Wanes family, Pompano Beach, Florida, panicked earlier this month when they found their 5 year old son locked in a large cooler on the family's back deck.
"I would, for example, play hide-and-go-seek," Nicholas Wanes told ABC affiliate WPLG. "But I, as, found, as a non-good hiding place inside the cooler."
Surveillance video from the family home showed that the child crawled into the 72-cooler cooler around 5 o'clock Saturday 2 March.
Courtesy R. Wanes He was in for about two minutes playing, with the top ajar and resting on the lock, but things took a quick turn.
The video seemed to show the boy pulling the lock and forcing it to close from the inside. He screamed for help when he realized he couldn't get out.
Fortunately, his parents were nearby to save him.
"We just caught him for dear life," his mother, Maria Wanes, said. "We don't want another family to hear their child and go through it."
His father Robert Wanes said he was upset with the cooler manufacturer, Igloo, because it was not possible to open the container from the inside.
He blamed it on a design error and said that it should not be easy for a child to lock the cooler from inside.
Courtesy R. Wanes 
Courtesy R. Wanes "I know we should all look at our kids and make sure they don't crawl into a cooler, but as we know, it only takes a second to beat the other way," he told WPLG.
Igloo seemed to agree with the family. A recall of four products was issued on Friday in the wake of the incident.
"It has been pointed out that a child has recently been caught in one of our products," the company said in the statement. "We are very sorry for scaring this event must have caused the child and his family, and very glad no one was injured."
It is attributed to the event a malfunction with the cooler lock.
"We immediately identified the product in question. Our engineers have determined what could have been the cause of the incident – a performance problem with a cooler lock, with the ability to lock, if the user attached his own padlock or similar device," said the company. "We have identified three other products with the same lock, with the potential to face the same problem."
ABC News & # 39; Alexandra Faul contributed to this report.
