Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Bill almost put him back into hospital NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- An unemployed New York doorman was cured of pneumonia, but says the $44 million hospital bill almost gave him asthma. Advertisement Alexis Rodriguez, 28, was one of several hundred patients to receive wildly inflated bills because of a computer error, the New York Daily News reported. The bill from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital should have been for no more than $300, but instead was listed as $44,776,587. Rodriguez told the newspaper, "I almost had an asthma attack." The billing firm, PHY Services, said it wasn't too hard to find the problem -- a subcontractor that prints the bills put the invoice number into the "amount due" space, the Daily News reported. Flight stops to kick off 'unruly' couple TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A Delta Atlanta-to-Costa Rica flight made an extra stop in Florida to drop off an "unruly" German couple who refused to sit down, an airport spokeswoman said. Advertisement Spokeswomen for Delta and Tampa International Airport said the two first-class passengers were forced to exit the plane in Tampa Sunday after they refused to sit and repeatedly demanded that the flight staff bring them champagne and food, the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times reported Monday. Airport spokeswoman Janet Zink said authorities did not file any charges against the "unruly" couple but the FBI was notified as a matter of routine. Delta spokeswoman Chris Kelly Singley said Flight 413 continued on to Costa Rica after about an hour in Tampa. Escaped inmate found in prison attic BOCHUM, Germany, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Police say the manhunt for an escaped prisoner at a prison in Bochum, Germany, Monday was brief -- he was found hiding in the lockup's attic. The search commenced when wardens went to check in on a 50-year-old inmate after he did not show up to breakfast, only to find the bars of his cell window were sawed off and he was gone. The unidentified inmate had been in jail since 1983 on a life sentence for various crimes, including a robbery in which someone was killed. The inmate's cell was on the top floor of the building. When a prison employee spotted him in an attic room, he surrendered without resistance. Police were investigating how he got hold of a saw. Advertisement A prison spokesman told The Local: "I don't know whether he received a cake recently, but the entire incident is like something out of a film." Barefoot Indiana fugitive tracked in snow MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 17 (UPI) -- An Indiana man who slipped away from police without his shoes was quickly apprehended by officers who followed his distinctive tracks in the snow, police said. Milton Burrell, 28, Muncie, fled from a hospital while in police custody but was soon spotted by a Delaware County deputy sheriff who noticed "fresh footprints in the snow that were from a person without shoes," a court document said. The (Muncie, Ind.) Star-Press said a lack of footwear was not Burrell's only problem. He was wearing only a hospital gown as he hustled across a street near the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Burrell, who had been sought for missing a court date on a domestic-violence charge, was marched back to the hospital and handcuffed to his bed, police said.
