Maine 'Climate Refugees' from Texas Find Human Feces on Bangor Porch, Draw Conservative Mockery

A Maine couple who called themselves "climate refugees" after moving from Texas found human feces on the front porch of their new Bangor home. The incident prompted quick mockery from conservative commentators.

Shawn and Sara Good described the discovery of feces and signs of a man sleeping on their patio furniture in a Bangor Daily News article as a reasonable tradeoff to escape catastrophic weather in Texas. The piece focused on their relocation to Bangor due to climate change concerns. The Goods said they left Austin after four catastrophic events in the past five years.

"When looking at global news, I’m so lucky that the big event I experienced recently was someone sleeping on my porch," Sara told the Bangor Daily News.

Conservative voices locally and nationally criticized the couple and the newspaper for portraying the incident that way in a city grappling with homelessness. Encampments dot the downtown area. The Bangor City Council passed an ordinance Monday that bans storing personal belongings along sidewalks to combat the encampments.

Maine Republican state Rep. Reagan Paul called the Bangor Daily News article more like satire from the Babylon Bee than real news.

"This is actual ‘news’ from the Bangor Daily News — treating a literal crap show as heartwarming proof that Maine is paradise," Paul wrote on X. "Most of us already know it — but for the few holdouts still treating the Bangor Daily News as serious journalism: when your paper has to spin literal human feces on a doorstep into a heartwarming relocation success story, it’s time to admit reality and maybe stop taking them seriously as journalism."

Investigative reporter Steve Robinson noted the couple fared better than another from Texas who moved to Maine and were shot and killed in front of their two children six months later in 2023.

"By Maine standards human s--- on the door is good considering the last couple from Texas who moved here were murdered by a recidivist aspiring rap artist in front of their young children," Robinson posted on X. "Liberals call this restorative justice."

Texans recently endured Winter Storm Uri with statewide power outages, deadly floods that killed 130 people last year, Hurricane Beryl and extreme heat.

Conservative commentator Dana Loesch, who lives in Texas, said every U.S. region faces catastrophic weather.

"It's Texas," Loesch said on her show. "Texas gets some tornadoes. Texas gets some flooding."

"They leave Texas because it's hot here," Loesch continued. "That's a you issue. You should have known that."

Climate change increasingly influences where Americans live. A Forbes study found 30 percent of homeowners have moved because of it.

Columbia University professor Alexander de Sherbinin said the U.S. could see significant movements as people relocate to avoid severe weather.