A couple returning home after a fun night out in Central Florida came to the rescue of a man who’d had his arm bitten off by an alligator in the early hours of the morning on June 16.

According to Fox 35 Orlando, Kendall Hardester and Ismail Rainey discovered the badly wounded man on the path along Lake Monroe in Sanford.

"It was probably around 1:30 in the morning. We were driving back home and passed by a guy, basically lying on the side here, covered in blood," Hardester said. "He was missing his arm from here; you could see his bone and all the flesh coming out of it."

After Rainey pulled over the car, Hardester jumped out and immediately tried to help.

"I just ran over. There was one little towel that he had, so I took it, covered his arm with it, and squeezed it till the paramedics got there," she said.

It turns out the homeless man been swimming in alligator-infested Lake Monroe when one of the reptiles bit off his arm. Luckily, he survived.

"It was probably five minutes, then another guy got there, and he started helping me. It was probably around ten minutes till the paramedics came," Hardester said.

The paramedics took the man to the hospital.

Rainey said encountering the injured man was quite a shock.

"Yeah, not something you'd ever expect, especially on a regular Saturday night, ending your night going home. You don't expect to run into something like that."