There is a gangster in Dublin known as 'The Viper'. I won't mention his real name as he likes litigation. He was shot 13 times on three seperate occasions and lived. With little enough side effects although he did lose the top of one finger. There were also several other attempts on his life where they failed to get him. He has more enemies than Saddam Hussein. The police, the press, gangsters, drug dealers, IRA etc etc. But he lives a charmed life.
He sued the gunman who shot him on one occasion and won 120,000 Euro. Not that he got paid or anything. He later planted a fake bomb under the car of a crime journalist who had written about him. Naturally the journalist wouldn't be intimidated and continued to write about him. So the Viper sued the newspaper. He lost.
He's still a drug dealer and still getting away with it, still walking the streets. He'll probably die in bed aged 99.
