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A joyous celebration quickly turned into a nightmare after a stranger pulled the plug and deflated a bounce house during a birthday party with children still inside it.

The surveillance video captured a man committing the act before disappearing across the street to his own house. 

The heavy collapsing plastic sent two children to the hospital as police continue to search for the grumpy neighbor.

 

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Surveillance video captured a man pulling the plug and deflating a bounce house during a birthday party on Sunday in Port St Lucie, Florida, with children still inside it

 

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The unknown neighbor, in his 60s, watched the party from a fence before unplugging it and disappearing across the street back to his own house

Deborah Romero said kids were bouncing in the inflatable house during her daughter's birthday party on Sunday when it suddenly started to sink.

'We were very nervous about the kids because it was extremely hot, and they were trapped inside the bounce house,' she told WPEC.

'We couldn't really reach for all the kids, and we unfortunately had to pull one of the kids by his leg.'

Parents worked to rescue approximately a dozen kids between ages two and three.

Two children had to be taken to the hospital, one for distress and the other to check for possible injuries.

Surveillance footage, watched later, captured an unknown man in his 60s looking at the party over a fence for a few seconds.

 

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About a dozen kids had to be rescued from the collapsing bounce house (left) and two children (not pictured) had to be taken to the hospital, one for distress and the other for possible injuries

 

Deborah Romero (pictured, with her daughter), who was hosting the party, said that during the holidays, the family's cord to their Christmas lights outside was cut as well. A police spokesperson said the area was canvased, but man in the video was not identified

He then heads to the backyard and unplugs the bounce house, before walking back across the street.

A YouTube video was created calling the man a 'bad neighbor' and a 'piece of trash'.

A police spokesperson told WPEC that the area was was canvased, but that the man in the video was never identified.

Romero said that this is not the first time her family had suffered from an incident like this.

She said during the holidays, the family's cord to their Christmas lights outside was cut.

That led them to install the security cameras which caught the neighbor.

Port St Lucie Police say charges for an incident like this vary depending on the situation but, in this case, a trespassing charge would apply.