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group met in Farl's room to
study his model of the tracks and rockhard mattress disguising the remainder of the fruitful booty
surrounding area. Farl's booty beneath. After things had on dorm for 25¢ a pound. Bilbush, a jock strap and short roommate suspected nothing ("I cooled off, the gold would be After a week of untouched
just thought they liked trains."). fenced off to Lynchburg jewelers dinners, "Black Jack" Adams thief from way back who Around this time the gang could and the gang would go into early began to suspect foul play. reputedly had accumulated more be seen on and off campus retirement to enjoy the spoils of Further investigation revealed
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government goldmine located in Aftfun, Va. (not real name), and the wheels in his demented mind
began to turn deviously.
Farl reasoned that the
shipment would be a piece of
cake for the crew of hardened
criminals he had in mind. "The Bunderferg Gang," as it came to
be known, was indeed a motley crew. Farl supplied the brainwork and the rest supplied
the muscle; the two comple- mented one another.
First there was Fanny "Killer" Diller, a tough eighth grader
missing. That same week the medical log books of the infirmary report that both Diller
and Bilbush came down with an acute case of hives, linking them as probable accomplices in the caper. "They were tricky devils,"
the faithful employee told us. Last was an unlikely looking seventh grader, Ron "Polar Bear" Runcible. Sucked into the quartet, Ron had no other
previous record except for an infrequent demerit sheet switch. He joined in occasional dessert
but facts and names of the true, h.ld
ters and of t ose mvo ve repor .
have been changed for thezr own •
protectwn. .
In the fall of 1975 a movmg,
real·life crime drama took pl~ce 'thin the hallowed boundanes
:: Virginia Episcopal. School. Immediately followmg t.he discovery of the event, a massive
cover·UP campaign. ensued by unknown high ofhoals. Only today, after nearly two years of
false leads, closed doors1 an~ three times convicted of pen thefts, to the surprise of Ham
brick walls have The MedaOCTe s
two ace reporters, John stealing, along with numerous
Trainwreck who said, "He looked too innocent to do that."
Bunderferg, indeed, knitted a cohesive unit. Every detail, including the train schedule, was
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Ruthless members of the Bunderierg Gang hold the train engineer at bay
canoe back across the canal. The delighted to discover a fresh crate
Bobwood and Brian Carlstein, unearthed the true story.
counts of second-dessert-lifting in the buffet line, according to former Marriott detective "Black
The crime was not a
spontaneous one, but, in fact, Jack" Adams. Adams said of
gold bricks would be hidden of figs on theirdoorsteps the next checked and double checked. under the bunks of Farl and his morning, as were the faculty at
took months of meticulous Fanny, "He's a mean one, I'll tell Every evening at 1:00 a.m. the unsuspecting roomate, the V.E.S. Far! began to sell the
planning on the part of Farl you. I once saw him life three
Bunderferg, a former student at , v.E.S. Bored with the mundane curriculum provided by the school, Bunderferg let his
creative talents flow on to other rracks. One evening, as Farl lay in bed after stimulating conversation with his roomate (unnamed), he heard the roar of a
passing locomotive and a childhood obsession was rekindled. His roomate drawled onabout the huge shipments of "Aftfun Gold" that passed through Lynchburg by train each month on their way to points unknown. Farl immed- iately equated this to the secret
cherry jellos during one meal." Next there was John "Moose"
Bundrrferg Gang rehearsed many long hours for perfect train robbery
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pittance later on, Farl decided to get rid of the evidence
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their caper. an abundance of fig pits scattered When the fateful night throughout the grounds and a
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Tension mounted as the fateful evening approached. The group became intensely psyched, anxious, nervous, and excited.
The plan was as follows: "I saw something like this in a Bunderferg believed that an old
made off with the tempting
desserts. In an exclusive fashioned approach would movie one time, but I never finally nail them on a big rap.
interview, Trainwreck told us create the best element of expected them midgets. In a way, surprise. "Polar Bear" and I wished it could've been Clint
that in a mere week more than Bilbush were to be cleverly Eastwood that robbed us. You one hundred strawberry disguised as two horses. know, I seen every movie he ever
After intense questioning, Bilbush cracked under pressure and told all. The repercussions
shortcakes were reported Bunderferg and Diller would made and ..." After capturing of the crime were swift and
mount them and race down to the canal where a stolen canoe would be waiting. They would paddle across to the opposite side, attracting as little attention as possible from the nearby community of Reussens. There, Far! would electronically disengage the railroad tracks. As the train came to a screeching halt, the gang wol!ld gallop out from nearby cover, armed to the teeth with a deadly·arsenal ofcap pistols and lkB guns. Diller
the cargo without a shot and getting back safely in the canoe, the gang ripped open the crates labeled 'Aftun Gold" to revel in their spoils. However, as the sweet aroma of ripe figs wafted up to their noses, the chagrined gang realized their terrible mistake. "Aftun Gold" was the trade mark of the delicious figs
grown in the areal
Recovering from the initial
shock of disaster, Bunderferg
brutal. Farl and his accomplices were sentenced to two years hard
labor on the "Aftfun Gold" fig farms to atone for their crime. Others involved or affected by
the crime were given new identities and have been trying to rebuild their lives (or intestines,
as the case may be).
And so, the illustrious career
of the Bunderferg gang came to a
bitter end. Many readers may
take their heart-breaking story of constructive-lives-turned-sour
devised a plan by which the gang would hold the train engineer could at least escape unscathed
arrived, the operation went off
flawlessly. The train was taken
completely by surprise as
number of students, including Farl, in the infirmary with intestinal disorders (.some of the figs had gone bad). Adams suspected the gang, hoping to
engineer Lionel Twain attested:
lightheartedly. However, a under guard while the others from their caper. Rather than pertinent moral may be learned
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