Here’s an unbelievable Connecticut Supreme Court ruling.

“In starting the engine of his vehicle remotely then getting behind the steering wheel, the defendant clearly undertook the first act in a sequence of steps necessary to set in motion the motive power of a vehicle,” Chief Justice Chase Rogers wrote in the opinion.

The “motive power” phrase comes from a 1939 Connecticut court decision, cited by the Supreme Court on Monday, that defines what constitutes “operating” a motor vehicle.

Update: From Steve in MN. In Minnesota,

Nonetheless, Fleck was convicted of drunken driving, and on Tuesday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that conviction in a decision that serves as a reminder that a person can be guilty of drunken driving without having driven.