The pair woke at 5am when the compactor started (Picture: Seminole Tribe Police)

If you are prone to drinking a little too much you may recognise the feeling of waking up in an unfamiliar place and thinking: ‘How did I get here?’

Police say for one couple, that unfamiliar place was a rubbish truck, and the way they got there was by falling asleep in a large bin.

Donald Jordan, 37, and Lisa Sirabella, 49, apparently had a pretty wild night at Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Tuesday night.

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But after appearing to pass out in a waste bin, the pair allegedly woke up ‘screaming’ as the compactor started in the back of a rubbish truck, with only the quick reactions of the driver saving them from a grisly fate.



‘I got two people… stuck in the truck,’ the driver told police.

‘I almost killed both of them.’

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The pair have 65 arrests between them since 1999 (Picture: Osceola County Sheriff’s Office)

According to the Tampa Bay Times, the couple suffered no major injuries and are recovering well.

A police spokesman said: ‘It was originally believed that they were homeless, but it seems they were just really intoxicated after hanging out at the casino.’

This is not the pair’s first run-in with the law. They have 65 arrests between them since 1999.

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