Couple Set Up Video Camera To Catch 'Yellow Ribbon Thief" - A Squirrel

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BETTENDORF, Iowa -- An Iowa couple has finally discovered what was happening to the yellow ribbons they were tying to the trees in their yard in support of their son and other troops in Iraq.

Bob Saskowski said he and his wife, Alexis, tied the ribbons to their trees for eight months, and the ribbons kept disappearing. He said the last straw was when three ribbons disappeared in three days.

So after asking neighbors about it, they set up a video camera and focused it on the yard. But a vandal isn't to blame.

Six weeks later, they caught the culprit on tape. The ribbon was being shimmied slowly down the trunk.

At the base, the squirrel pushing the ribbon bit through the ribbon and took off with it. The squirrel was using the ribbons to build a nest.

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