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Bottle-Flipping Craze Is Fun for Children but Torture for Parents

That is the noise of water bottle flipping — the compulsion promoted through online videos to toss a partly filled plastic bottle and try to get it to land upright — which has captivated children across the country.

Boys and girls view it as a harmless pastime, but for parents the repetitive noise of the children flipping (gurgle), landing (thud) and grabbing (crunch) the bottles is torture.

Dayle Tuna, 40, of Rockaway, N.J., described a refrain directed at one of her sons: “Would you stop with the bottles? Stop with the bottle! Stop with the bottle!”