As a kid growing up in Denver, Blart Bent never liked to take out the trash. The smell and sometimes dripping bags grossed him out. At night, the alley dumpster was a dark, scary and smelly place. Blart always dreaded that long walk to the dumpster…

One evening after dinner, while straining to lift a heavy trash bag into the dumpster, some bigger kids saw Blart struggling and began heckling him. With a mocking, ‘Let me help you with that, Blart’, two of the bullies lifted Blart directly into the dumpster

The bullies ran off and Blart was left wallowing in a sea of junk. Panic set in. Blart was hyperventilating. He slowly recessed into the depths of his psyche to escape the junk which was encompassing him. Time and space faded away and in a rebirth of sorts, JUNKMAN was born