The compulsion to flip partially filled plastic bottles so they land vertical – known as bottle flipping – is spreading across the nation as more kids rush to post videos of their stunts.

Soon, kids were flipping bottles in schools, summer camps, virtually everywhere. And all manner of bottle-flipping tricks – landing the bottle on a stop sign, on your own head, on a moving car ...

But, as his brother Nicholas, explained, “Eventually one bottle flip turns into three, which turns into six, 12, 100 and before you know it you’re spending an hour on your kitchen table ...

FLIPPING HELL Nursery teacher posts scathing Facebook rant about why she quit her job – slamming parents whose kids ‘flip tables’ because they’ve never had ‘boundaries’ ...

It's driving parents (and schools) crazy, but kids love it. 12-year-old James Tobin reflects on the 'Bottle Flipping' craze. Meghan Enwright had reached her limit. Exasperated by her young sons ...