When a product, typically a complex one like an airplane or an iPhone, becomes completely inoperable as a result of a defective battery.
My old iPhone 3GS did not take Apple's recent earnings report well and decided it would Boeinging for no apparent reason, sparing the entire device any future disappointment. I'm pretty sure we could have talked things out, oh well.
a super energetic individual 'going off' verbally or physically, consequently 'bouncing around the room' and off the walls like a "super ball" (-a possible meth/crankhead!)