Lou Vidal, an enthusiastic Amiga supporter, QAUG (Queens Amiga User Group) President and a favorite figure at many Amiga conventions, was killed this past Friday on his way to the LICA (Long Island Commodore/Amiga) group meeting.
Special Effects Artist, Cecilia, passed along the following;
Last friday, Lou was supposed to get picked up by Thomas to come to the local LICA meeting. When Thomas showed up he said he tried calling Lou several times and didn't know where he was.
Since we know Lou, this just didn't sound right.
After the meeting, we went to a local resturant to chat and around midnight the police called Thomas on his cell (because that was the last number called on Lou's phone). Naturally they didn't tell us anything, but we were really not feeling good at all.
Unfortunately, it turned out that Lou had been hit by some moron ("The driver of the Car was arrested, he has multiple suspensions on his license" is what I was told) and has passed away. What a bummer.
Just last saturday we had a QUAG meeting and as usual the energy was high and things were their usual chaos....tons of fun!
I said that this was "The Lou Effect" because I've never seen such craziness! Lou had a good laugh over that. I'm glad I got to contribute this, small though this may be.
Lou was great guy and will be sorely missed!
