Bungo

### Place of Birth

The Wimbledon Burrow, Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Earth, Milky Way

### Date of Death

2012, 2012, 2012 (aged 55), 2013, 2013 (aged 56), 2014, 2014, 2014 (aged 57), 2015, 2015 (aged 58), 2016 (aged 59), 2017 (aged 60), November 2019 (aged 62), Early 2020 (aged 63)

### Date of Death

2012, 2012, 2012 (aged 55), 2013, 2013 (aged 56), 2014, 2014, 2014 (aged 57), 2015, 2015 (aged 58), 2016 (aged 59), 2017 (aged 60), November 2019 (aged 62), Early 2020 (aged 63)

### Place of Residence

The Wimbledon Burrow, Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Earth, Milky Way

### Occupation

Refuse Collector (1968-2000), Explorer (1972-1973), General Criminal (2000-2020), Robber (2000-2020), Drug Dealer (2010-2020),

## Womble Information

### Position in Burrow

Resident (formerly refuse collector [1968-2000])

## Relations

### Friends

Stepney, Tomsk,Orinoco, Wellington, Alderney, Shansi, Culvain, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Madame Cholet, Cousin Yellowstone, Bermondsey

### Enemies

John C. Star, Adolf Hitler, Paul (born 1967), Horace, Che Guevara (swan), Miss Adelaide

**Bungo** (born 1957) is an English Womble former criminal who is notable as formerly being “one of the most troublesome wombles in history”.

In 1961, at the age of four, Bungo entered the Womblegarten under Miss Adelaide, a stern teacher. Bungo was particularly resistant to authority and often played tricks on the other students and even Miss Aderaide herself, which invariably resulted in a painful beating. It was during the 1960s that Bungo met some of the wombles he would know for many decades. His first good friends were Orinoco and Tomsk, both of whom he met in 1961, followed by Wellington in 1962. Most wombles graduate from the Womblegarten at the age of 8-9, but Bungo did not graduate until the age of 11, due to his refusal to learn and his bad behaviour. Bungo, even in his childhood years, would regularly devise elaborate and cruel ’’jokes’’ which he would play on his fellow wombles. Due to his problematic behaviour, Miss Adelaide would regularly beat and cane Bungo, which would only increase his hatred of authority and rebellious attitude. Despite his difficulties in the Womblegarten, Bungo eventually graduated at the age of 11 and was allowed to choose his name from Great Uncle Bulgaria’s Atlas of the World. Unlike many other wombles who carefully considered their name, Bungo decided to point at the map randomly and see where he pointed to. His finger landed on Bungo, a Japanese province in eastern Kyūshūand and he chose that to be his name. The province of Bungo had been disestablished in 1868, 100 years before Bungo chose it to be his name. The province of Bungo was still present on the atlas as the atlas originated from the mid 19th century and Great Uncle Bulgaria had refused all suggestions of replacing it with a newer addition. After graduating from the Womblegarten, Bungo became a working womble, joining his friends Orinoco and Tomsk collecting litter on the Wimbledon Common. Serving in what he considered an important position served only to increase Bungo’s ego, arrogance and bossiness and he spent more time playing tricks on the other wombles than he did working. In 1972, when Great Uncle Bulgaria was picking wombles to travel the world and compile womble information for Womble History of the World Volume 10, he decided to pick Bungo due to his boldness and generally fearless nature, however due to Bungo’s recklessness and propensity to make rash decisions, Orinoco, a calm, sensible, but lazy womble was paired with Bungo to keep him in check. Despite Bungo always showing hatred towards authority, when he was alone with Orinoco and aged 15, he realised that he actually missed Great Uncle Bulgaria and Tobermory, even when they were punishing him and longed to be told he had a funny sort of name again. As part of their exploration of the world, Bungo and Orinoco visited America and met Cousin Yellowstone Boston of the Yellowstone Burrow in Wyoming, a highly technologically advanced burrow, especially for the time. During their travels, Bungo and Orinoco spent a lot of time together and whilst though did mostly did get along, they occasionally fought with each other. Bungo first met his best friend and partner in crime, Stepney, in the early 1990s as they lived in nearby burrows. Up until that point, most wombles who Bungo had met deplored his tricks and troublesome behaviour, but Stepney actively embraced them and both encouraged one another towards a route of increasing problematic and criminal behaviour. Until 2000, Bungo continued to behave badly, but not usually doing anything excessively dangerous or immoral, but as he aged, he became more troublesome and even coerced Stepney into giving up his new year’s resolution. As the decade progressed, Bungo and Stepney engaged in increasingly more serious criminal behaviour. They regularly stole money and items from both shops and homes despite having no use for them and would laugh hysterically as they committed their crimes. Their laugh became closely associated with them and was compared to machine gun fire ’’HEE HEE HEEE HEEE’’. By 2010, they had started to engage in violent and drug-related crimes and were despised by their fellow wombles. They were regularly imprisoned for their crimes, but often escaped and then engaged in even more violent crimes and often committed murder. They had no particularly motivation other than to cause chaos and have fun, but they did steal money when they could. Eventually, they were both banished from their respective burrows in 2015, but they continued to cause trouble for several more years. From 2015 onwards and perhaps before, they were killed several times in an attempt to stop them from committing crimes, but they, for several years, were continually resurrected and often within weeks or months of their deaths. In 2019, Bungo and Stepney threatened the lives of tens of thousands of individuals, including thousands of wombles when they deliberately ‘’reactivated’’ an ancient and dangerous organisation, a Steeting which could have resulted in many deaths if it had not had been stopped in time. Following this event Bungo and Stepney were killed yet again, but were able to return at least once, if not several times, in 2020. Bungo was reconstructed in 2022 and has been allowed to return to the Wimbledon Burrow. He has not engaged in any problematic or criminal behaviour since his reconstruction and has expressed a wish to be a productive and beneficial member of society.