172 driver:
Ok, makes it even stranger that an airplane is plotted tracking north for 20 odd miles while repeatedly instructed to turn south.
An Asian crew in disbelief (understandable) and a controller overloaded with only 2 or 3 airplanes in normally quiet airspace at that early morning except for the fact that LAX is east at the time, which requires a better skill set on the part of the controller for the unusual.