20 points to a milestone <| sep |> My family used to own 80 undeveloped acres of piney woods in rural Arkansas we called it the Tick Farm . One spring break me and a friend from college decide to go camping for a couple of days . aside from letting my folks know , no one else knew we were going up there . We set up camp , and poked around a couple of natural springs , and old abandoned outdoor church and some hunters stands from the deer leases and finally put up the tent and slept . Until , about 10 pm , when a set of headlights crawled up the barely there logging trail we drove in on . We got out of the tent , the car door opened . A guy I never saw because of the headlights in my eyes asked , Are you Mary Lou ' s boy ? I allowed that I was and he proceeded to say , Well , she told me you boys were up here and I thought you ought to know a couple were found murdered just a couple miles down the cri ' ck there . And then he left . So . We had a quick discussion and decided that one of a small number of scenarios would play out 1 . Everything would be fine and we should just not worry 2 . Some psycho killer was loose in the woods and would murder us 3 . Frightened rural Arkansas people looking for someone to blame for the murders would find two longhaired hippy looking college students and murder us 4 . Wanting to get things wrapped up neatly , we would get accused of the murders and g intimately acquainted with the Arkansas penal systemSo we were packed and on the road home in less than 15 minutes .