There are hundreds of dollars below the ice, and they chased down the pallet-mover? Why didn't they just get some ice picks?
You are a security guard at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There are hundreds of dollars inside a six hundred pound block of ice. You cannot leave your station. How do you get at it?
Using an ice pick? Why would a security guard have an ice pick? Maybe if it were Chicago, but this is San Francisco.
Use another tool to chip away at it? I dunno, that's a lot of ice.
Melt the ice somehow? Nice idea, but how?
Wait.
It also requires the security guard to have access to a private place with a large door whose floor won't be damaged when six hundred pounds of water gushes onto it.
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When will you guys do international payments ?
we're steadily marching towards it, but we have a lot of work to do here at home in the U.S. before we can expend the resources necessary for international expansion. i don't have a date for you, unfortunately.
It's a better marketing stunt if it's actually money, though. Leaving a significant (but not implausibly large) sum of money out in the open but apparently completely inaccessible -- it motivates people like us to think about ways to get the money out, and here we are talking about a company whose existence I would otherwise have forgotten.
If it turns out to be fake money I'll be very disappointed in you, wepay.