Husband and wife fell lucky to be alive after they asleep in a dumpster while intoxicated and had to be rescued after it was later emptied into a garbage truck.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's officials say the couple had been sleeping in a dumpster outside a Wawa gas station near Tampa early on Wednesday.
When the dumpster was emptied into the back of a Progressive Waste Solutions garbage truck, they started screaming and banging on the sides of the truck.
'I was picking up some containers,' driver Radmas Valasquez told cops, reports The Smoking Gun. 'I got two people, I don’t know how they got in the back of the truck. But they stuck in the truck.'
Valasquez said he was due to compact the trash when he heard the screams from inside the truck. 'I almost killed both of them,' he said.
Rescue crews had to be called about 5 a.m. after the driver was unable to remove 37-year-old Donald L. Jordan and 49-year-old Lisa Spirella from the truck.
Emergency service workers were able to free Sirabella and Jordan from the garbage truck. They were then transported to Tampa General Hospital for treatment of injuries.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies surmised that the duo “likely became intoxicated at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino” before dozing off in the dumpster. Jordan, who smelled of booze, told cops that the pair was visiting the Tampa area from Kissimmee, a city about 75 miles away.
According to court records in Osceola County (where Kissimmee is located), Sirabella and Jordan have frequently been arrested over the past several years.
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