Angry guest rams car through hotel's glass door, drives wildly around lobby [WATCH]
An angry guest rammed his vehicle through a hotel's glass doors and drove wildly around its lobby, leaving a trail of destruction after an altercation with staff over his missing laptop.
A number of videos shared on the internet showed the white car smashing the glass doors of the central Shanghai hotel from their hinges, reversing and then bursting through into the lobby, knocking over anything in its path.
The car, then hurtled wildly around the entrance hall as confused spectators asked each other what was going on, with one exclaiming: "He's going nuts!"
Here's the video:
On Jan 10 a car crashed into the lobby of Jinling Purple Mountain Hotel Shanghai (上海金陵紫金山大酒店) in Lujiazui, Pudong after the driver, a guest at the hotel, had a spat with hotel staff over his notebook computer which purportedly went missing in his room. pic.twitter.com/ExOaAPTtJK
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) January 11, 2023
According to local police, the incident had taken place on Tuesday, and that the driver was a 28-year-old man, identified as Chen who had gotten into a fight with hotel staff over the loss of his laptop during his stay in the hotel.
No one was hurt in the incident, they said in the statement posted on their Weibo social media handle, further adding Chen had been held pending further investigation.
Hotel staff told AFP the laptop had been stolen and was found outside the hotel complex.
The car slammed into another set of doors before apparently heading for the exit, only to crash into a door frame and come to a halt.
Other people present and hotel staff screamed at the driver to get out of the car, banging on it and trying to break through a window in order to get the keys.
"Do you have any idea what you've done?" they can be heard shouting. "Are you crazy? Are you?''
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First published: 11 January 2023, 14:03 IST