"Moreover, Forrest was subjected to hours of abusive interrogation and wrongly arrested just hours after watching his friend get shot and surviving an armed mugging himself."

And they survived a mugging outside the store in 1981, in which the father was pistol-whipped and the son shot in the stomach.

Throughout his career, he has nearly drowned in Cape Horn waters, survived a mugging by jungle revolutionaries, played basketball with George Clooney, and taken an acting lesson from Harrison Ford.

She was a sturdy, independent woman who survived a mugging at age 89 and lived on her own until she was 93.

John Cassidy: Mitt survives a mugging.

But it was the victory of a man who had narrowly survived an attempted mugging.