1 Jar of Salsa Cost a New England Town $20,000 in Damages/Repairs

If you are like me, you read that headline and said, "Uh, WHAT?"

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

I'll tell you how: glass.

Nearly 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 do over $20K in repairs because someone brought a jar of salsa to the public pool. You guessed it. It broke.

With shattered glass sinking to the bottom of the public pool, the pool immediately had to be closed.

According to a Fox News article, the $20K in repairs will be for draining, cleaning, refilling, rebalancing, and retesting the pool.

And obviously, this could not come at a worse time...midsummer.

This is a great reminder to follow the rules at our own public pools.

I'm sure the person who brought the salsa jar was simply trying to have a few snacks while getting their tan on. They probably thought that there was no way it could shatter. But you cannot control other people.

Imagine if a child kicked it by accident, shattering the glass and sending it into the pool below. There's no way to predict something like that happening.

So, just follow the rules (I know, boring). We don't want something like this happening in our pools!