Looting during a state of panic is a common thing. When people are faced with stress and possible tragedy, the actions of individuals can be irrational. We see it happen world-wide, in historical and current events, media and literature. Dario Fo, a famous Italian actor and playwright focuses a lot of his work around struggle and exploitation. One of his larger works “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!” approaches the act of looting during a hunger and poverty crisis. Being such a relatable issue, we can relate his work to common modern issues in order to get a better understanding of the insanity that panic can cause. Natural disasters are perhaps the most outrageous events that could send entire communities into fright. Two episodes of looting relatable to Fo’s play is the looting faced during the two super storms Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina. Not only are the two events relevant to Fo’s work, but through them it is possible to place a modernized outlook on panic and what it creates. The main idea of Fo’s play, “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!” is driven from the act of looting. Looting, as we know, is the act of stealing goods during war or riot. The protagonist in this play, Antonia, joins in a rebellion of women whom are stealing hundreds of dollars-worth of groceries due to poverty and price gouging. The financial background of the characters in this play, play a huge role on their actions. We see Antonia involve her close friend Margarita, and the immense amount of trouble they go through just to hide the fact that they’ve stolen the simplest of things. The setting and time period justify the characters actions for readers by in detail explaining issues with their husband’s jobs, labor issues in general, specific things the characters speak about and even the food kept in the house. Fo does an excellent job helping his reader understand how desperately deprived these characters are; Not only are they poor, but there is no work, no food and no stability for the families in this piece. The fact that Antonia’s family is eating bird seed really puts us in a position to see firsthand what these people are going through, and understand that poverty is as big of a disaster as any physical destructive force. Panic really is the root of most things criminal. When we panic over unjust decision or opinion, we riot, when we panic over how others view us, we lie and when we panic over a lack of income, we steal. Theft is the main action taken by the characters in this play, but knowing what they come from, somewhat justifies it for us. Poverty is as life ruining as natural disasters, and is one of the biggest things people panic over. “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” (Douglas) Looting is what these characters turn to. Not because this is something they want and enjoy, but because it becomes necessary for survival. Though meant to be fiction, this play is perhaps one of the most relatable of Fo’s work. Placing this idea into a modern setting is simple, and at times can further help us understand the mentality behind why people loot, what they get from it and aid us in fully understanding the meaning of survival. Though looting is an act of rebellion, different kinds of loots denote different things. Even if it is a criminal act, “We wont Pay! We wont pay!” somewhat justifies to its readers the actions of its characters, and places an idea in our heads that in this particular situation, it may have been an okay thing to do. “One phenomenon that has attracted much attention in the literature is whether (ex-tensive) looting occurs during the emergency stage of a disaster. Some researchers argue that the belief that citizens will begin looting sim-ply because the opportunity presents itself in the wake of a disaster is a myth and largely promulgated by media reports (Leitner) The kind of theft seen in We Wont Pay! We Wont Pay! is called a “Flash-Mob Robbery”. Flash mob robberies are defined as an organized form of theft in which a group of participants enter a retail shop or conv