An Iowa couple with a son in Iraq were annoyed that the yellow ribbons they put up in their yard kept disappearing:

"The ribbons started to disappear. Every time it disappeared, I would hang a new one," said Bob Saskowski, who tied the ribbons with his wife, Alexis.

It went on for eight months. The last straw was when three ribbons disappeared in three days.

So Bob Saskowski appealed to his neighbors through a memo, asking them to talk to their teenagers about respect and patriotism and asked for their help.

"It indicated I needed their eyes to help them watch the trees," he said.

Neighbors responded by adding yellow ribbons to the trees in their yards.

They finally resorted to placing a video camera focused on their yard and caught the culprit: a squirrel. Instead of responding with guns or traps, they responded with a name:

"We can laugh now," Saskowski said. "Before, it was not funny."

He says the squirrel was actually a good thing.

"And I named him Patriot because he brought our neighborhood together," Saskowski said.

That is a nice sentiment, but now that profiling is acceptable, they might want to add squirrels with physical evidence such as yellow ribbon fibers to the list.