There  is no “pissing away”. It goes to someone. Those people make money, they spend or invest it in turn.

A philosophical question - Is it tragic that these did that much damage or is it tragic that these vehicles cost so much in the first place?

It’s called not wanting to get your car stolen or damaged by some idiot.

Buy something that you can quickly flip in Hawaii for more money. They love their trucks there and offroaders, something with a lot of capacity for surfboards might be worth looking into as well.

Tokyo is known worldwide...enough so that you can just say “Tokyo” - you don’t have to idiot-proof it by calling it “Japan’s Biggest City”....

I don’t understand why this article specifies that the man is a “White Man”