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Byline: Voranai Vanijaka
Jun. 1--March 2005. A serene morning dawned in a sleepy district in Kamphaeng Phet. A rooster crowed, the water buffaloes yawned. The locals got up and geared up for another day in the fields. A motor engine growled through the air.
Was somebody getting an early start with the tractor? No. In the vein of Pierce Brosnan as the suave millionaire in 1999's hit romantic thriller, The Thomas Crown Affair, Surasilp Polthumar, 42, navigated his personal paramotor through the morning sky.
Sunlight flared against his back, a large parachute supported his flight down to earth. The slack-jawed locals gathered around, gaping at him in bewilderment.
Mr Surasilp's first words were: "Hi, Mom."
Armed with only a fourth-grade-equivalent diploma (obtained in 1984) and a mountain of ...