Woman with world's longest fingernails loses them in car crash

[Samwesty999]

Woman with world's longest fingernails loses them in car crash

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A woman who held the Guinness World Record for having the world's longest fingernails has lost them in a four-car accident in her hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States.

66-year-old Lee Redmond was seriously injured after she was ejected from the sports utility vehicle (SUV) she had been a passenger in. It had collided with one car, causing it to collide with two other cars on Tuesday February 10. She is expected to make a full recovery.

"[Her nails] were damaged beyond repair," reported the BBC, quoting Guinness World Records, who also said that Redmond's nails were "a fundamental part of her life and unique character". The cause of the crash is not yet known and an investigation is ongoing.

Redmond is credited by the Guinness Book for having a combined fingernail length of 28 feet, the longest on record. She has been growing all eight fingers and two thumbnails since 1979. Her longest of all nails was her right thumb, which was 2ft and eleven inches long.

Before Redmond was named as the record holder in 2006, Shridhar Chillal from India had the longest at a combined length of just over twenty feet.

Link: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Woman_with_world%27s_longest_fingernails_loses_the m_in_car_crash

[REVENGE]

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That's so. fricken. creepy.

[walmartshrty]

Some things should not be repeated under circumstances. Some things should also never be photographed.

[Snoopy4life]

I remember seeing that woman on the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" show.

I also rememeber the thingsaying she took like 3-4 bottles of nail polish to paint her finger nails once -____-

Good lord, they're gone >:D

[Floppydisk35]

Aww man I feel sorry for her, I mean, she has been growing them since '79, and then she loses them like this in a car crash...

xD

[Snoopy4life]

Aww man I feel sorry for her, I mean, she has been growing them since '79, and then she loses them like this in a car crash...

xD

But just think how light her hands will feel now, And she will actually be able to touch things... and not scratch them up.

[walmartshrty]

Now that I think about it, it must be a real toll to have such long fingernails. I would be worried if I swung my arm around too fast I might take someone's head off. Or while I was petting my dog, I'd accidentally impale him with my super long fingernails.

[peguin21795]

So would she have to wait another 10 years or so to get those long nails back?

[CopperPython]

Shes probably better off with out them. I hope shes ok though, a car crash? Are the finger nails the only thing people care about? lol

[Steve Green]

Ehh I hope shes alright, if she cares more about her nails then her health, then shes a weirdo..

[Jeebus]

I feel bad for her. 30 years of growing your nails and they're gone. Although I hope she doesn't try to grow them back. She'd be like 96 and that'd be extremely creepy.

[Ghost_Detective]

I hope she's alright.

Though it was going to happen anyway. That is so creepy.

In my opinion, she's just a show-off for keeping her nails like that.

[Billboard]

Well, looses her nails is nothing that horrible. And she didnt loose all her nails. This is probably no more than a bruising onto her life and she is now able to pick up a cup.

[biodue123]

But just think how light her hands will feel now, And she will actually be able to touch things... and not scratch them up.

yeah, no more edward scissor hands :(

but, thats kinda gross though, over 20 feet?

but, i do feel sorry for her, bucase thats like 30 years!

[CrankyKong]

I do hope she doesn't start growing them again.

Her, and us, would be better off not looking at them. :|

[Rathu]

That must suck, really bad.

[walmartshrty]

Ehh I hope shes alright, if she cares more about her nails then her health, then shes a weirdo..


I thought the picture already spoke for that.

[Tom Yellow - Penguin]

I hope she's okay, though her nails definitely don't. At least her record will stay until someone else beats her record.

Shridhar, this is your opportunity. http://i37.tinypic.com/s5fwnq.gif

[walmartshrty]

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainn ameatlonglast.com/images/nails.jpg

YEAH, LET'S GO SHRIDHAR, LET'S GO.

This accident is starting to sound fishy to me. Maybe Shridhar was trying to knock out his competition?

[phenom21]

Ahh sucks for her. She spent a lot of years growing them. Ugh, but don't grow it back anymore, if it's gone, it's gone. At least the rest of her is okay..:rolleyes:

[Snoopy4life]

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainn ameatlonglast.com/images/nails.jpg

YEAH, LET'S GO SHRIDHAR, LET'S GO.

This accident is starting to sound fishy to me. Maybe Shridhar was trying to knock out his competition?

EWWW EW EWWEWEWEWWW! They are like curled up and stuff that is so weird. Besides he's a man and she is a woman. they are in different sets of records for ''woman with longest finger nails'' and ''man with longest finger nails''

[Samwesty999]

So would she have to wait another 10 years or so to get those long nails back?
It would take her another 30 years. She would be 96 then. :O

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainn ameatlonglast.com/images/nails.jpg

YEAH, LET'S GO SHRIDHAR, LET'S GO.

This accident is starting to sound fishy to me. Maybe Shridhar was trying to knock out his competition?

Ewwww. He is gross. If I saw him in the street I would break them off.

[kogeck]

Maybe it was karma's way of telling her to cut her nails once in a while.

[Tom Yellow - Penguin]

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainn ameatlonglast.com/images/nails.jpg

YEAH, LET'S GO SHRIDHAR, LET'S GO.

This accident is starting to sound fishy to me. Maybe Shridhar was trying to knock out his competition?
Maybe the guy who collided with Lee Reemond was Shridhar. Or Shridhar used voodoo to provocate the accident.:O

[Dracophile]

It looks like she is holding a giant spider. :(

[Pen Rua]

It looks like she is holding a giant spider. :(
And I thought dragons were afraid of nothing...

[GlacialFreez]

I feel sorry for her, all those years of hard work gone.

At least now she'll be able to use her hands.

Maybe it was karma's way of telling her to cut her nails once in a while.

I thought karma only effected moral decisions, how is not trimming your nails a moral decision?

[Baboons33]

Thank God they are gone.

Why would you want them, and now she can live a normal life.