Top Nail Grower Loses Claim to Fame in Wreck

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 13, 2009 5:30 PM CST
Top Nail Grower Loses Claim to Fame in Wreck
No accident can take away the privilege of being the shortest man alive, He Pingping, 20.   (AP Photo)

The holder of the Guinness World Record for longest fingernails lost her honor in a traffic accident, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Lee Redmond of Utah, who started growing the nails in 1979 and reached a total length of 28 feet and 4.5 inches, suffered the loss of her prized appendages when she was ejected from a car in which she was a passenger. She was hospitalized and is expected to be OK; her wounded pride is another matter. (More car crash stories.)

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