Tremayne Durham is a 33 year-old man from Brooklyn. Back in 2006, Durham ordered an $18,000 ice cream truck from a company in Oregon. Shortly thereafter, however, Durham changed his mind and demanded his money back. The company refused, and so Durham drove all the way across the country to confront them. When he arrived, he started looking for the owner, but, not finding him, Durham ended up shooting and killing Adam Calbreath, a former employee of the company who just happened to have stopped by that day.
It’s an unremarkable (if tragic) story so far, right? But here’s where it gets weird: Durham quickly grew tired of jail food, and so he agreed to plead guilty to murder in exchange for a bucket of KFC chicken, a bucket of Popeye’s chicken, a serving of mashed potatoes, a serving of coleslaw, a slice of carrot cake, a pizza, two calzones, a tray of lasagna and a bucket of ice cream.
The total cost to the taxpayers of Multnomah County, Oregon: $41.70.
The judge and DA agreed to Durham’s odd demand because the fast food feast was far cheaper than a jury trial and any appeals Durham might have filed.
And just for the record, his feast was served on two separate occasions. When the DA initially agreed to the deal, Durham was given the chicken, potatoes, slaw and cake. After he was sentenced, he got the other half of the food, the lasagna, calzones and ice cream.
Read all about it here.