Rudolph the red-state reindeer?

A Texas couple determined to find out who had been damaging a sign in their front yard proclaiming their support for President Obama's re-election bid caught the offender on Wednesday. Tom Priem, a software support engineer in Austin, told FoxNews.com he and his wife, who live on a block where political signs dot front yards, were fed up with seeing only their Obama sign repeatedly defaced. 

"The sign had holes poked in it like somebody had stuck a knife through it," Priem said Friday. "At first I thought it was somebody who didn't like Obama."

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Priem said he even called a city hotline to document the incident in case a more insidious offender was to blame. He couldn't believe his eyes when his wife showed him the surveillance photo she snapped seconds after the campaign sign was destroyed - by a buck.

The varmint's vandalism began about 10 days ago and it's unclear what the animal has against the sign.