Is it a big deal if the clock on a bank’s automated teller machine is three minutes off? It is a big deal if that timestamp is used as evidence in a murder investigation. An Arizona Star article tells the story of two teenagers and a mother falsely arrested for murder, and hauled from Arizona to Maryland to face charges, because of a three-minute discrepancy between an ATM clock and a surveillance camera clock. They were eventually released, but, as an example of the kind of government abuse and arrogance that I discussed yesterday, no government or law-enforcement officials saw any need to apologize or pay for their trip back home. They probably didn’t even get a free 2-liter bottle of Coke, in spite of being subjected to an ordeal far worse than I endured for my free Coke.