Abstract: A retractable versatile bollard of simple construction is made of stainless steel. The post is generally cylindrical in shape and, when the bollard is in stored position, the post sits in a sleeve in the ground below grade level. In active position, the post can be grasped by a handle and pulled up by human effort to where only a lower portion remains submerged underground. The lower portion of the cylindrical post has spiral threading that mates with spiral grooves at an upper sleeve portion of the sleeve when the post is turned after first raising the post to an appropriate point. Bollard has a safety lock for permitting the post to be raised from a stored position to an active position and a double lock that prevents it to from being easily lowered by mischievous individuals from the raised active position to the stored position.