Jeff Linholm (center), a Chula Vista, California skydiving enthusiast, is another fatality claimed by the growing sport of indoor skydiving. With the recession hitting especially hard on extreme sports enthusiasts, many are finding novel indoor alternatives to the outdoor events, often with disastrous results. City councils all over the country are trying to curb the this growing trend, but are finding it difficult to regulated what people can or cannot do inside their homes.

Authorities recommend that friends and family of extreme sports junkies be vigilant in identifying the signs of indoor extreme action and try to talk loved ones out of it. Things to look for include: parachutes being worn while doing mundane tasks, like laundry; very long bungee cords hanging from the shower head in the shower; hang gliders being used in place of a coffee table; motocross bikes revving from the basement; and Mountain Dew sponsorship stickers in place of wallpaper.