(From canadianpress.google.com) Vancouver – A British Columbia man who mowed over a pod of killer whales at full speed in his boat, either hitting or just missing one of the endangered animals, has been fined $3,500. Xi Change Gao, of Sidney, B.C., was convicted in April after video showed the man”s eight-metre crab-fishing vessel, the Vien Duong, tearing through the pod near South Pender Island.