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New York Post Online Edition: news: “A 17-year-old Bronx high-school student wants the city to pay him $5 million because a Snapple vending machine fell on him at school as he shook it.

Court papers filed yesterday charge Albert Salcedo suffered a broken foot and ankle in the incident on May 25.

‘This could be a permanent injury â€â€? we just don’t know yet,’ said Salcedo’s lawyer, Richard Rosenberg, explaining the multimillion dollar claim.

‘He has pins and screws in his leg, and only started walking three days ago.’

Salcedo, 17, was in the lunchroom of Theodore Roosevelt HS in The Bronx, attending a nighttime GED class, when the Snapple machine malfunctioned.

‘It ate my dollar, so I shook it very gently,’ he said. ‘It must have been top-heavy, because it fell right down on me.’”