I'm stunned. Church, no less. What is wrong with people? I need to go do my pirate dance now...
Steve: I live in the general area of Buckhead. Over the last 4 months, we've had a noticable & sizable increase in homeless types--including a shirtless, barefooted & bearded fellow who was begging outside the Lime Tree at Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, not to mention a smorgasbord of streetwalkers being shuttled back and forth between Justin's and the skeezy Day's Inn next to the Amtrack station by their pimps. For awhile we had hookers openly servicing tricks in our apartment complexes' parking lot. It is not impossible that the mystery dumper is from this contigent, and not your nutsy organist.
G.darn, that's s--t.
It must have been a case of sleepwalking, whoever it was imagined they was sat on a WC pot, I'm glad nobody in my family did that stuff, otherwise would have to disown them sharp.
I used to live in Atlanta and worked in Midtown on W. Peachtree. Someone did the same thing in front of our office door ALL the time! It was so disgusting...
There were many prostitutes and homeless in the area at night but it just seemed so intentional and not just a spot to go.
Who knows the motivation behind it.
It could be the beginning of dementia, not recognizing that the stairwell is not the toilet. It could be an expression of anger, repressed, bottled up anger.
Emily, I'm betting on the latter, in the church situation. Someone who was immensely, scarily passive-aggressive.
Oh joy...something I actually have a little insight into (compared to crime speculation where I'm usually clueless). Too bad it's about bodily functions.
Speaking as a counselor, we're often collectively reminded as a profession to consider the simplest possible explanation, particularly in absence of direct evidence to the contrary. Consider it to be a direct translation ie: "S*** on you!" The ultimate expression of contempt.
When I lived in NYC's LES, dodging human feces in public places--particularly between parked cars and under stairwells & in apartment lobbies--was a daily hazard.
Strange to read this after hearing what I did on the radio this morning. It was a discussion on the homeless and panhandlers in Memphis that bother the tourists while visiting our city. One woman called and said a homeless person slept on their porch every night at their law firm downtown. He also relieved himself in this same spot. (Dogs know better than to do that!) But a homeless person with delusions would not necessarily care, I guess. Their suggestion? To put spike strips down each night. You know the things they use to keep pigeons from roosting on window sills? But, since that won't work in a church...
Here's another possible explanation. I work for a company that frequently hires temp employees from a temp agency when our workload is too great. Now, I don't know where the temp agency gets their folks from, but most of the ones that come to work here are speaking Spanish. Our maintenance man was so mad after the first spate of spanish speaking temps were here. They went into the mens room to relieve themselves, but instead of using the commode, they deficated in the corner of the bathroom!(BTW, no paper was used either) Our maintenance guy refused to clean the room. Needless to say, we informed the temp agency they should instruct their hires in sanitary conditions and disposal of same.
This one is pretty strange, Steve! Maybe as a child this person was forced to church every day and was made to attend Catholic schools? You know those nuns can leave deep bruises other than on ones knuckles! 
I heard of a similar case although it involved employees finding urine in spray bottles used to clean their area of a manufacturing plant. I would suggest that this is a none too subtle message about the shitty stairs, the church, or even a member of the congregation but it's definitely an inside job. I would suggest your not too sane organist and the best way to catch him would be to use a hidden camera unless you have somewhere else that would allow you to observe him without being noticed. If would suggest that one of the priests confront him and ask if what he wants? I know people are trying to be helpful but in my experience, most homeless people might hang out in a church but they wouldn't go up the steps into the choir loft to take a dump. There are too many other places that are more convenient. It's definitely a message. And if the organist is as off as you are suggesting, he may be on some sort of medication that contributed to his "offering". Hope this helps.
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