Abracadabra or torture?

Judging by Web postings, some viewers of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala quickly tried to replicate Fu Yandong's magic act with fish. But their "magic" involved what some critics call torture.

One anonymous netizen admitted as much.

In a detailed post on Tianya.cn, a popular online community, he said he first tried to make goldfish swallow metal beads, "but they spat them out immediately". Then he tried to super-glue metal plates to the fish's belly, but that proved too slippery.