Absurd laws are not privileges of local and state laws. The Civil Code, in Brazil, in its article 1234, stipulates that the person who finds any lost item (a cell phone, wallet, keys) is entitled to receive a reward of not less than 5% of the value of the lost item. If the owner of the lost good does not accept to paypaying the reward, in theory, the person who found it can keep it. In this case, the lost item is considered, before the law, as something abandoned.
But a law that should be changed is the Brazilian Penal Code currently providesprovided in Article 75 that the maximum penalty shall not exceed 30 years, you. You can think that a person who murdered a thousand people shouldn't stay in prison for just 30 years in prison.