LEWISTON – The video opens with a title that rolls down the screen: “Penny throwing for dummies starring Ross Blais & Adam Blais.”

The song in the background for the YouTube video: “What’s My Age Again?” by Blink 182.

What follows is footage of two young men driving through Lewiston and hurling coins at passing cars and trucks. For more than four minutes, they videotaped their penny-hurling spree as they drove through familiar locations like Pleasant and Webster streets, Pond Road and the intersection in front of Martel School at East Avenue and Lisbon Street.

The footage, shot in September 2005, begins with a giggle from the driver of the van.

“We’re out chucking pennies at cars!”

That was on Webster Street.

The driver hurls a penny, and one of the men shouts, in an excited voice: “That one went inside!”

“Yes! Yes! Yes!” shouts one of the men. “That’s four in a row.”

“Five,” says the driver. And then laughs. “And now six!”

The footage becomes more frightening moments later as the men drive slowly by Martel School where three young children are seen walking with an adult.

“Yeah!” yells one of the men in the van.

In the credits at the end of the film, the driver is identified as Adam Blais, a Lewiston man in his early 20s who is away at college. The man running the video recorder is identified as Ross Blais. The two men are not related.

Ross Blais is 23 and still lives in the area. On Monday, he was contacted by police and by a Sun Journal reporter. He told police that he did not hurl coins during the spree, just manned the camera. And he insists that neither man threw pennies at the group of people outside Martel Elementary school.

Above all, Ross is adamant that he and Adam Blais both regret the entire episode.

“We look back and we think, ‘Wow. That was stupid,'” Ross Blais said Monday. “We definitely did not want to hurt anybody. We were bored and we did something dumb.”

He said he no longer stays in touch with Adam Blais, who could not be reached for comment Monday night.

“I don’t talk to him anymore,” Ross Blais said. “I’m a completely different person now.”

It isn’t known how many vehicles were struck by coins during the spree. The driver, Adam Blais, is shown flinging them while Ross Blais mans the camera and remains off screen.

Nearly a dozen vehicles are seen struck by coins during the videotaped spree before the prank ends: apparently, the pair ran out of pennies near Pond Road and Scribner Boulevard.

“Oh, that was a good one,” one of the men says as a minivan is struck by a penny in that area.

Police Lt. Michael McGonagle viewed the tape Monday. He was forwarding it to detectives. In 2004, Adam Blais was warned for throwing golf balls at cars, he said. Blais was never charged because no victims came forward.

No victims have come forward since the 2005 penny incident either, he said. But police are not taking the matter lightly.

“Ross said they didn’t throw anything at the kids,” McGonagle said. “He said they just yelled at them.”

“But we will not tolerate this kind of thing. Obviously, something like this can be very dangerous,” McGonagle said.

Behavior exhibited in the video could result in charges of criminal mischief or reckless conduct, McGonagle said. It could also become a lot worse.

“It could cause someone to lose control of their vehicle and drive off the road. Someone could be hit and badly injured. In a situation like that, a person could be charged with assault or aggravated assault.”

The YouTube clip generated roughly 20 comments from people around the world since it appeared in 2005. Most comments take a harsh view of the Blais pair.

“What would happen if u hit someone in the eye and they crashed with kids in the back,” wrote one person who watched the video seven months ago. “It could happen. If u ever did it to me… I would rip ur… your spine out.”

The video was taken down Monday afternoon by the owner.

The end of the clip concluded with more credits, some brief footage of the pair igniting firecrackers and other items and then a dire warning.

“All rights reserved… We will still slit your throats. See you in hell, bitches.”

The footage also includes the line: “Special thanks to: The city of Lewiston 4 a boring Monday afternoon.”

The video is over after 4:21 minutes. It ends with the same Blink 182 song that features a line some might find ironic.

“What the hell is wrong with me?” according to the song. “My friends say I should act my age.”