Eeek! Record Breaking Accident!

Lee Redmond held the Guinness World Record for having the longest fingernails. She has been growing them for almost 30 years until she was in a 4-car pileup in Salt Lake city and she was ejected from the vehicle.

From the Salt Lake Trib here:

The Guinness World Record for longest fingernails was broken Wednesday, so to speak.

Salt Lake City resident Lee Redmond has been growing her nails since 1979 were broken off in a four-car pileup Wednesday in Holladay.

Redmond was a passenger in one of the cars in the 1:30 p.m. crash. She and at least two others were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. She was ejected from the vehicle.

Redmond’s nails were 33 inches long when The Tribune last interviewed her in 2007. She then was 66. In a 1995 article, she said she once turned down $10,000 to trim her nails on Japanese TV.

I guess it’s hard to buckle up or hang on when you can’t use your freakin’ hands.  Well, perhaps she still has a world record for being the oldest world record holder to fly 30 feet when ejected from a vehicle and lose a previous world record at the same time.  Is there a category for that?

One thing is for certain.  Some tow truck drive in Salt Lake City is now a Guinness World Book record holder for picking up the grossest thing ever at a scene of a car accident.