I remember an A level physics practical demo that was screwed up by some kind of centi minute stopwatch the lab tech gave out... Basically it meant when it said what we thought was ten seconds had passed, it had actually only been six.
The odd thing is that there were 20 people watching the demo, and no one at the time spotted the fact that the readings being taken ever ten secs seems to be happening a bit quick! Its only when doing the sums later that nothing made sense.