Elizabethtown public transportation company breaks world record

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — There's a new pin in Elizabethtown, Kentucky — and it's not on a map.

Several employees of the Transit Authority of Central Kentucky (TACK) created and installed a huge thumb tack on the front of its building on Dixie Highway in Elizabethtown.

"I am definitely proud to be a part of this," Victoria Burt, TACK Human Resources Manager, said. "I think it's a great thing for Elizabethtown, kinda puts us on the map."

Tuesday, officials with the Guinness World Records presented the company with a certificate for the record of the world's largest pin, measuring a whopping 21 feet, 7 inches. The previous record was 19 feet, 8 inches.

"I never would have thought we would have the world's largest tack in the City of Elizabethtown," Elizabethtown Mayor Jeffrey Gregory said. "We like to do things in a major way here and that is definitely represented behind me."

Even Guinness World Records officials agreed this record was a little special.

"This one is unique because it ties in so well with the organization's name, and its such an important organization for the community," Michael Empric, Guinness Worlds Records adjudicator, said.

TACK is the public transportation agency for Hardin and Meade counties in Kentucky, offering demand response, non-emergency medical transport and general public transportation without fixed-route bus stops.

Glenn Arney, CEO of TACK Transit, said the company is not well known in the community, and they wanted to change that.

"We're trying to represent the community in a little brighter, a little more professional manner," Arney said.