SHANGHAI - A disgruntled guest rammed his sports car through a Chinese hotel’s doors and drove wildly around its lobby, leaving a trail of destruction after arguing with staff about his missing laptop.

Several videos published on social media show the white car smashing the glass doors of the Shanghai Grand Trustel Purple Mountain Hotel from their hinges, reversing and then bursting through into the lobby, knocking over anything in its path.

The car, a convertible with its top up, then hurtled haphazardly around the entrance hall as bewildered spectators asked one another what was going on, with one exclaiming: “He’s going nuts!”

Local police said the incident took place late on Tuesday morning, and that the driver was a 28-year-old man named Chen who got into a dispute with hotel staff over the loss of his laptop during his stay there.

No one was injured in the incident, police said in the statement posted on their Weibo social media account, adding that Chen had been detained pending further investigation.

Hotel staff said the stolen laptop was found outside the hotel.

The car had crashed into another set of doors before apparently heading for the exit, only to slam into a door frame and come to a stop, its hazard lights flashing.

Onlookers and hotel staff screamed at the driver to get out of the car, banging on it and trying to smash through a window to get the keys. “Do you have any idea what you’ve done?“ they can be heard shouting. “Are you crazy? Are you?“ AFP