In another example of how Brazil is party central, a Brazilian law allows you to get away with the most heinous of crimes, as long as you do it out of eyesight of the police. The law does not allow police to arrest anyone five days before and two days after an election, unless they are actually caught in the act of committing the crime. It was designed to ensure fair elections because local politicians in the past would have their opponents arrested on election day and locked up until the polls closed.

Today Adriano Saddi Lima Oliveira thinks it is the best law in the world. Oliveira is a 23-year-old law student who confessed to hiring hitmen to kill his mother. He had his mother killed because she was tossing away the family inheritance on her boyfriend. Police would very much like to arrest the killer but they can’t because elections are on Sunday. They hope to arrest Oliveira next week.

In the election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looks to have been forced into a second-round runoff with former São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin. The runoff will be on October 20th, so grab your knives and buy a ticket to beautiful Brazil!