A Houdini-like career may be as working in a crazy call centre

Call centre rep? Yeah your crazy to, just not as much. Kristen Johnson is an escape artist.

When asked if she was crazy after allowing her husband to lock her in a water tank, eight locks and chains restraining her, without air, 560 times, she calmly answers, “Depends on who you talk to.”

Johnson, the 30-something wife and player of death-defying feats, was on tap for the Western Fair earlier in September.

“There is always a level of controlled anxiety. Mentally you have to be really focused,” Johnson replied on how she prepares herself for a standard escape.

Standing over six feet tall, the cylinder of glass filled with water, shines in the lights of the stage as Johnson is on top of the tank ready to wow the crowd. That evening she was under water for over two-and-a-half minutes and easily undid the locks and raised herself out of the tank to the cheers of Londoners and fairgoers.

You'd expect there to be some kind of smoke and mirrors on stage, but none are found. The stage stands bare, as one of only two women in the world that perform this amazing stunt Johnson credits her training before her strength.

“I worked with a lot of amazing instructors, drive trainers and locksmiths,” she explained. Turkey, Vegas, Reno and all cross North America are just some of her shows venues. Johnson also hopes for the show to hit Europe in the next couple of years.

Johnson feels the death defying- business is a tough way to make a living, but according to her, so are call centres.

“Its one thing to see [my show] on television, but to see it in person, it really effects you,” she said.

Fans friendly mobbed Johnson after she freed herself from the tank and many stayed to get autographs and handshakes. High school student Kristy said she'd never seen anything like it.

“I couldn't believe it [on TV] it looks so fake, but here you could see everything, she was under that water for a couple of minutes.”

The act really empresses how a day job can be taken for granted. How many can say, ‘I'm going to put my life in harms way for the entertainment of others?' Not to save life, not to feed the hungry, just to entertain.

Ending the acting her husband pleads with the crowd to have them back next year to the Western Fair, and by the reaction, they will be.