Draggable: does not detect nested, removed Draggable when element is removed during drag

Draggable does not seem to correctly detect that the original Draggable has been removed if it was part of a larger section that got removed as a whole. An example can be found at jsfiddle.

My attempt to isolate the bug pointed me to the following statement in Draggable (around line 197):

#!js
//if the original element is removed, don't bother to continue
if(!this.element[0] || !this.element[0].parentNode)
    return false;

When the Draggable itself hasn't been removed from its parent, but the parent has been removed from the DOM, this test will evaluate to false and execution will continue. The situation only gets worse in Internet Explorer as a removed element seems to have a parentNode of type DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, which means this test will always evaluate to false.