Footage of a woman stealing the badge from the front of a Mercedes car has emerged from China.

In the dash cam video, captured in Linyi, Shandong Province last Wednesday, a women uses a water bottle to hit the famous logo and then twist it off.

According to local news, the car owner parked his car on the roadside to deliver a meal to his father in hospital. After no more than ten minutes when he came back, the badge on his car was gone, and it costs more than £100 GBP to replace it.