Woman with World’s Longest Fingernails Lost Them in Car Crash

By Queuebot in World Records on Feb 14, 2009 at 2:11 am

Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest fingernails in the world.  Totalling over 28 feet long, she was once offered $10,000 by a Japanese television program to cut her fingernails:

Redmond’s nails, which hadn’t been cut since 1979, were broken in the crash. According to the Guinness Web site, her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches.

Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. Don Hutson says Redmond was ejected from an SUV in the crash and taken to the hospital in serious condition.

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  1. Gauldar
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 2:11 am

    She wasn’t driving the bloody car was she?

  2. Willo the Wisp
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Her nails were are old as me. Revolting.

  3. Colin
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 10:49 am

    How… did… she… wipe?

    /shudder

  4. ted
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    I wonder if they were insured.

  5. Josh
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Nails so long you cannot put a seatbelt on. She had it coming.

  6. janedoh
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    I hope she is okay but can you imagine what the EMTs thought when they got to her and I wonder if her nails hurt anybody else….you know the whole ‘I’m gonna get killed by the guy in the car who doesn’t have his seat belt on’ type of thing.
    I wonder what she does for a living?

  7. Skipweasel
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    janedoh :- at a guess she picks elephant’s noses.

  8. darlzwik
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Maybe she was a side show freak.

  9. dmj
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    It’s really sad that she will have to start all over. All of us girls know if you lose one or two nails, you might as well cut them all down to match. I hope she lost them ALL at once, coz then she won’t have to make that difficult decision. What a trying, trying time for her. I hope she’s okay, besides losing her nails that is. They were probably like old friends. She’ll save gobs of money on nail polish and nail polish remover however. Always a silver lining to anything I guess. Keep us posted. We’ll all be worrying about her.

  10. violet
    Feb 14th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    ew. also? way to eschew the utility of opposable thumbs and general digital dexterity in favor of a time when lesser life forms just pawed uselessly at things.

  11. me
    Feb 15th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    She is a disgusting person, looking for nothing but the shallow attention that comes with being a freak.

    How did she function in life, in society? Imagine her doing simple things like grocery shopping. Imagine how intrusive those stupid nails were. Imagine how much she disgusted those around her, by walking around with 30 year old nails. What is wrong with an attention-grabbing loser like this?

    I, for one, am thrilled she lost her nails in this accident. Had she been wearing a seatbelt, the outcome may have been better, but I really wish it was actually worse. Much worse.

    Our society does not need shallow show-offs like this.

  12. jaekel4
    Feb 16th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    She should have taken the $10,000.

  13. Sean D. Freuduh
    Feb 19th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    I can’t feel sorry for this person. I have, in the past, come across people who make a “statement” with their fingernails, whether it be with garish appliques on nails too long to allow for normal digital function or with glued-on extensions that can only be described as weapons.

    There is a record for the longest eyebrow hair ever achieved. There is a record for the longest nose hair ever grown. Fine and good (I suppose), but these are not debilitating features.

    Yards of fingernails is something better shed than cultivated.

    I hope that at least several shards went home with the EMTs. Keep an eye on EBay, folks!

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    Apr 15th, 2009 at 1:34 am

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  15. R.I.P. Michael Jackson
    Jul 11th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    First off I wont to say that I hope that she was alright instead of everyone saying im glad this, and im glad that half of yall is just some rude ignant people i have every seen and what if it happend to you all I know you wouldnt want anybody saying something to you about that.Know show some respect for her.

  16. Demmi
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 12:04 am

    ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..her nails are SOOO long..how the hell did she grow them? Are her nails even real? She obvious;y crashed coz of em..who can drive with those nails!

  17. Demmi
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 12:06 am

    some ppl commenting are saying really long words and there confusing me :S lol :P

    Yehh she has long nails :P


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