You had to have an event bound in order to trigger an event - which is not necessarily the case.

23220321 · John Resig · 31d65e90 · 23220321
Commit 23220321 authored Jan 22, 2007 by John Resig
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--- a/src/event/event.js
+++ b/src/event/event.js
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ jQuery.event = {
 				this.triggered = true;
 				element[ type ]();
 			}
-		}
+		} else if ( jQuery.isFunction( element[ type ] ) )
+			element[ type ]();
 	},
 	handle: function(event) {