bad luck

[chuckles39]

mgm hotel in las vegas removed an animal or something else at their entrance because it was bad luck for the chinese...a few years back ...would like to know what it was....statues of something.....thank you

[kempie]

Originally, the main entrance was inside the mouth of a giant cartoonish lion, but this entrance feature was changed to a more traditional entrance; some Asian gamblers avoided the casino, due to the cultural view that entering the mouth of the lion was "bad luck."

A large bronze lion statue was added above the entrance to keep with the MGM Lion theme, while not scaring away their more superstitious guests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Grand_Las_Veg as