No shirt, no shoes … no stealing?

Nothing was going to get in the way of Irakli Sharvadze saving his truck from a thief early Tuesday.

Not even a lack of clothes.

The Calgary man put on quite a show when he was taken on a wild ride around his neighbourhood in the back of his stolen truck — all while buck naked.

About 2 a.m., Sharvadze, who sleeps in the nude, and girlfriend Sheila Wilhelm were getting ready for bed in their Tuxedo home.

When Wilhelm heard their truck start up, she alerted Sharvadze, who ran outside in the buff and jumped on top to get the thief to stop.

Instead, the crook took off, with Sharvadze hanging from the roof.

“A couple of times we drove around the neighbourhood and I thought, ‘I’m naked, but what can I do?’ ” he said.

Sharvadze said he yelled at the thief to stop, but the crook simply yelled back for him to get off.

“He was yelling, ‘get out of here,’ that kind of stuff,” said Sharvadze, figuring the truck hit 140 km/h.

He tried smashing his way into the cab without success.

Wilhelm grabbed her phone, jumped in her car and gave chase while talking to police.

“As soon as the truck took off, my first concern was ‘Oh my God, my boyfriend’s naked’, and my second concern was, ‘He is going to hit pavement, he’s going to go flying off of that truck,’ ” she said.

Thinking she couldn’t catch up, Wilhelm returned home to wait for any sign of her beau.

“Then, there goes my boyfriend in the back of the truck, speeding by across our house again in the other direction,” she said.

She got back in her car and gave chase once again.

Wilhelm followed from their home on 31 Ave. N.W. to 4 St., then to 19 Ave., and all the way to McMahon Stadium.

That’s where the truck stop ped and her boyfriend jumped off.

Police caught up with the stolen truck minutes later near Memorial Dr. and 9 St. and took the thief into custody.

dave.dormer@sunmedia.ca

On Twitter: @SUNDaveDormer