But - if you check out the link I provided a few posts back, you'll find that the original 'story' isn't really a 'the guy in the foxhole next to me' story either. I was one of the ones who took 3refs to task early on for making light of what seemed to be a grisly incident, but once I dug up the details, I understood where he was coming from. His story wasn't really about a bunch of guys with baseball bats beating the shit out of a bunch of other guys; it was more like what we Canadians know and love as a 'bench-clearing brawl'. Okay, not all Canadians love it, but most do. We can't help it; it's in our blood.

The humour here isn't really classically 'gallows' or 'black', although it may have a bit of sadistic edge to it - in the style of, say, The Three Stooges.