Macho ride on the Giant Slide

Unidentified internet bullies have scoffed at Grandpa Stan's claim that duty called him to hold purses and take pictures and that's why he didn't ride the double-ferris wheel with the girls. He's really just a big chicken, they say, more suited to the fairgrounds henhouse than the mighty Minnesota Midway -- and a sorry, wussy role model for the courageous six-year-old, who leaped at the chance to spin wildly through the blue skies over St. Paul. So before these snickers go viral, we offer this photographic evidence of Grandpa's manhood and derring-do:

There, that ought to do it.