GMA: Teens Arrested Making 'Jackass' Tape

April 25 -- It was supposed to be a hilarious gag, an over-the-top stunt captured on home video that would land a group of teens on a popular national television show.

But instead of seeing their antics replayed on MTV's Jackass, two Independence, Ky., boys wound up breaking their friend's leg and getting sent to a juvenile detention center after taping a daredevil hit-and-run style stunt Monday afternoon.

"They were extremely upset after the event happened," Independence police Sgt. Anthony Lucas told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "But prior to that, when we saw the video of them doing the practice runs, they're laughing about it, cutting up, they were upset that he didn't try (standing in front of the car) the first time."

Police say a 17-year-old was driving the 1983 Honda Civic and his 16-year-old friend was videotaping from the passenger seat as the two intentionally struck another 16-year-old who was standing in the middle of the road, waiting for them.

Police say the car was moving faster than the 20-mph speed limit on the residential street, although they do not know its exact speed.

In their previous dry runs — they had apparently practiced the stunt for two weeks — the boy had jumped away from the car just before it would have hit him. Their plan was to have him leap away from the moving car in a single bound, capture it all on videotape and then submit it to MTV in hopes of making the broadcast.

Instead, the high-school students produced an alarming video record of a stunt gone wrong, in which the teenager is struck by the car, hits the windshield with a thud, then flies over the car onto the pavement.

He ended up with a broken leg, cuts and bruises all over his body and bumps on his head.

Police charged the driver and passenger of the car with first-degree, wanton endangerment and sent them to the Campbell County Regional Detention Center. They did not charge a fourth boy who was taping the stunt from a nearby yard, though both he and the victim may also face charges, Lucas said.