`` today , i kicked lex pinkston in the shin , '' i tell 3b , his legs still going like mad , `` which i know is a sin , especially since god made man in his own image , so he probably does have sympathetic ( divine ) shins prone to the unmerciful ache of a swift kick to the holy shin bone , and those roman thugs probably kicked good old jc in the shins a few times before they nailed our lord and savior to a tree , making him equally sympathetic to the plaintiff 's case , but before you go telling god all about my sin of punting teenage-boy shin , father big boy , let me stress that there were extenuating circumstances .