Raptured While Raking?

On my way home from work the other day, I noticed that one of my neighbors had apparently been zapped up to the mothership or something, right in the middle of raking. The next day, it was still there!

Naturally, the more logical explanation is that they simply forgot, but these particular neighbors have a very small, very immaculate yard (I don't know them, but I kind of hate them), and it's just not like them to leave a rake lying about.  I think the rapture finally happened, and hardly anyone noticed.