diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
index c9a397c90..7c9e1d546 100644
--- a/src/event.js
+++ b/src/event.js
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ function leverageNative( el, type, isSetup ) {
 
 			// If this is a native event triggered above, everything is now in order
 			// Fire an inner synthetic event with the original arguments
-			} else if ( saved.length ) {
+			} else if ( saved ) {
 
 				// ...and capture the result
 				dataPriv.set( this, type, jQuery.event.trigger(