Street Watch: Two escape injury as gunshots riddle car A MAN who allegedly threatened a security guard with a stun gun after he ran off with a ring from a jewellery store last week was charged on Tuesday. Police allege the 24-year-old asked to look at the ring at 12.20pm on Friday before snatching it from the counter and running out of the store. A security guard and two members of the public gave chase and followed the man to a car where they were involved in a wrestle. The man allegedly threatened them with an electronic control device (a stun gun) before driving off in a white Honda Civic hatch. The man was charged with steal from person, possession of prohibited weapon, use weapon to prevent apprehension and negligent driving but the ring has not been recovered. He was refused bail and appeared at Fairfield Local Court yesterday. A SMALL exclusion zone was setup at Liverpool Hospital yesterday after a mercury spill. Fire and Rescue NSW Hazmat crews were called to the hospital at 11am after a "small quantity" of mercury was spilt on the carpet from an unused blood pressure monitor, a hospital spokeswoman said. Five people were decontaminated after potentially being exposed to the mercury but it was treated as minor incident by health authorities. A MAN died in a house fire on Dunn Ave at Forest Hill at 12.30am yesterday. The home was well alight when firefighters and police arrived and after the fire was extinguished a short time later the man was found. No one else was injured during the incident and the death is not being treated as suspicious.