That’s a reference to the hilarious 1977 movie starring Burt Reynolds as the “Bandit” (his citizen’s band radio handle). The Bandit smuggles a tractor-trailer-load of beer to Georgia from Texas. He is ...

Burt Reynolds' niece, Nancy Lee Hess, visited Cora the elephant at the Topeka Zoo as part of the "Bandit Run." Cora, now 67, played "Charlotte" in "Smokey and the Bandit II" alongside Reynolds.