Oh, for heaven's sakes....
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...
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."
Salcedo said he was in the hospital for two weeks, undergoing two operations.
The Department of Education disputed Salcedo's claim. According to the high school's incident report, Salcedo "pulled a vending machine down and it fell on top of him."
Salcedo's mother, Diana Tineo, acknowledged that her son had sued before. He received $30,000 to settle a 1999 case in which he suffered facial cuts after he fell through a broken school fence.
Oh boy. So he's 17, has already dropped out of high school, AND is well on his way to becoming a professional litigant. Let me guess, when he "fell" through the broken school fence, he just happened to be in the process of trying to climb over it, right past the "Do Not Enter" sign, right?
Yeesh.
Posted by kswygert at July 30, 2004 03:23 PM