[Hawkeye]

I would like to start out by saying I've only actually seen the original OVA series and the AD Police files, and am basing things on them.

In these we seem to have three types of "Mad Boomer" type incidents:
1) Deliberate.
---Most of the "Mad Boomer" incidents we actually see were deliberate. The Boomer had been given instuctions to go out and do what it did for whatever reason. In these cases there was no fault with the actual merchandise.

Quite true, I noticed that Genom in the OVA were a major power play, I think it a copy of OCP megacorp in the film of Robocop. When the original show came out there were many homages to famous Sci-fi films, Such as Blade runner

2) Mechanical.
---While it is implied that breakdowns can make them flip out, the only truly mechanical based failures we see were due to illegal refurbishing. If anything the fact the Boomer could still run reasonably well, despite being used beyond design parameters and funkiness with a backstreet refurbish job, indicates that Boomers are actually a rather solid technology in this area and not exactly prone to this kind of mechanical failure. Thus if the unit is used as designed and properly maintained there probably tends to not be a issue.

Theses are seen alot more in Parasite dolls, ADPolice TV. Whoever.... I wouldn't really say this happans to the boomers in 2040. Because the boomers weren't mechanical problems... more manufacation defaluts.....

The 33S from Genaros might fall under this, but it's debateable whether they can truly be considered Mad Boomers. AD Police would likely classify them as such, however they didn't flip out or otherwise become mentally disordered. They also did seem to try to minimize casualties, and were doing what they were doing as a act of self preservation as any intelligent lifeform would be expected to do.

Can't agree with you there....the reason being that theses boomers were the most human ones we ever seen. There been discussions that these boomers had their personalitys copied from humans, but we can't prove anything from these ideas......

3) HAL syndrome.
---The HAL 9000 from 2001 is well known, although details aren't as widely known. This computer system basically was fed a command it wasn't really designed to handle, which in turn lead to a psychosis resulting in it killing the crew it was responsible for.

The poster child for this would probably be the boomer Leon shot up as a normal police officer. Given what it was, and the way it was acting it's not hard to see what type of perverted nonsense it was being put to. Apparently the programming in dealing with this developed a HAL-like syndrome leading to it being a "Mad Boomer."

More like Largo falls under the Hal factor.....