1 jar of salsa cost a New England town $20,000 in damages/repairs

If you’re like me, you read that headline and think, “Uh, WHAT?”

How can one jar of salsa cost a city over $20,000?

I’ll tell you how: glass.

Almost every public pool has a few rules: no outside food and NO glass in the form of a water bottle, beer bottle or in this case a salsa jar.

The public pool in Needham, Massachusetts, now has to pay over $20,000 in repairs because someone brought a jar of salsa into the public pool. You guessed it. It broke.

Because shards of glass ended up on the bottom of the public swimming pool, the pool had to be closed immediately.

According to a Fox News article, the $20,000 repair cost covers draining, cleaning, refilling, rebalancing and retesting the pool.

And of course this couldn’t have come at a worse time…the middle of summer.

This is a good reminder to follow the rules of our own public pools.

I’m sure the person who brought the salsa jar was just trying to snack on it while it browned. He probably thought it was impossible to make it burst. But you can’t control other people.

Imagine a child accidentally kicking it, causing the glass to break and fall into the pool below. There is no way to predict that something like that will happen.

So, just follow the rules (I know, boring). We don’t want that happening in our pools!