With a random object with wheels as hard and quickly as possible from the slope in a parking garage. Since a few years it has become a cautious tradition during the Tilburg Meimarkt. People race on vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers and children’s bikes. As long as it rolls, it does work. The police see it through their fingers for a few hours, then it has been nice and the crowd has to leave the garage.
The concept is simple. During the Tilburg Meimarkt, bargain hunters can collect stuff, clutter and gems at the large flea market until dawn. The stalls rich throughout the center, where sellers have turned the entire attic upside down to collect things. It ranges from clothing, dolls, photo albums, heirlooms with nicotine attack and other trash. Visitors stroll through the streets with their beers, play games and go into the pub or the parking garage with colorful finds.
Because a cautious tradition has emerged in the parking lot on Pieter Vreedeplein in recent years. Participants of the improvised soap box race have to score an object with wheels on the Meimarkt and then racing the hill to the barrier with a rotten corridor. Quite dangerous, but especially entertaining. The asphalt is therefore packed with enthusiastic audiences, which also serves as a guardrail.
The police were looking at a distance on Saturday night, but tolerated the phenomenon. Only after a few hours did they intervene. But fortunately not before our reporter could also take a ride.