It's always better to rob a house during the day because people are preoccupied. However, if you leave an individual home by themselves, then daytime house robbing because more riskier and more challenging. Only because you can't make as much noise and you have to be careful. In this case, this robber got lucky for daytime robbing because his target was by the window, and we don't know what took him so long and what he did in the house to get out. In fact, the robber almost got trapped in the house because everyone was returning home as the robber made their escape!

But as for nighttime robbing, it's not as safe neither is it smart. When you night time rob, it's sorta easy because people are generally in their room sleeping or falling asleep. However, there are also night owls who are awake and alert and can sense an intruder in their home. Night time robbing is harder and more riskier, but it may sound safe because it's happening in the dark... But that's not the case much anymore.

I think that this robber went off of pure luck. No one was home, they went in and took a while to get out, and he wasn't caught. And that was was a pretty risky run as time progressed due to him stalling in the room and on the porches.