What happens if you go to another country break the law there, but it's not illegal in the country you live in? Example: Person A goes to vacation to country 2. Person A is from country 1, where you can use sneakers whenever you want. In country 2 one is allowed to use sneakers on Saturdays 8am-3pm. Then person A uses sneakers in country 2 on a sunday and gets caught. The punishment of using sneakers outside the law timelimit would be 90 days. What would happen?
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When you are in another country, you are subject to their laws - you may be arrested and go through the due process as defined by that countries laws.
This potentially means anything from a fine, to incarceration or deportation or even execution, depending on the local countries laws.
A good example is the caning of American citizen Michael Fay in 1994 by the Singapore authorities, as a judicial punishment for vandalism, or the case of Swiss citizen Oliver Fricker, who was also caned in 2010 for vandalism.